Towing vehicle for CP 19

[Craig Weis]

Once the crew and I were on a job building a powder paintline for True Brother's in O'Fallon, Mo.

We came back pulling, full of job tools and steel, a four horse goose neck trailer with a 18 foot double axle trailer on a ball hitch behind the horse trailer. We were way over loaded!!

The tow was a 'clapped out' Chevy Suburban with a tired diesel in it. The State Trooper in Indiana just laughed and shook his head at me as he s-l-o-w-l-y eye balled us and passed us as we tried to maintain 45 mph with an automatic transmission for ever downshifting going through his state on the way home...plus a crew of six in the chevy. Amazing!!!

So the moral is you can pull anything with anything. It's a matter of speed...and wind resistance...wind resistance squares as speed doubles.