If you were a car....

[geepy]

I just drive a regular gas job. But in my older years I started to slow down to enjoy the scenery. Guess I'm kinda weird like that.

 

[remuda1]

I used to haul horses between my place (southwest of Fort Worth) and San Antonio and Houston. Four door pickup with a three horse slant load gooseneck trailer behind. I never drove less than the speed limit and if someone still felt like they needed to get around me on a two lane road, I would pull to the shoulder and allow them around me. To me, that's just being courteous. However, I will go out of my way to stay off major highways when hauling a trailer. City folks don't take into consideration that not everyone has trailer brakes and will pull out right in front of you. My trailer weighs about 3000 empty, then toss 3 horses in there and feed, hay and whatever else into the tack room. Without trailer brakes, that would be VERY hard to stop in a short distance, just something to think about.

All of the talk about smart cars reminded me of a picture I had seen with the caption "SMART car?"

Just made me cringe and definitely made me change my mind about getting one to run errands locally in.

 

[Royd]

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I must chime in on this. Brakes on a trailer that heavy are an absolute must. From experience, and I had brakes on the trailer, but the actuator wasn't working, I was hauling a load of concrete blocks only about 40 miles, to my house. As I started down a short steep grade, the trailer started pushing the truck and before I could start back up the other side and get it slowed down, the trailer was fishtailing outside of the line of the truck. Talk about pucker factor...I just got lucky.

My sister ranchs cattle, and needed some work done on this 3 ton trailer. It was a dual axle, and only had 3 brakes installed. None of which worked. she thought that just because she plugged the wire into the receptacle on the truck, it was all good. She didn't even have an actuator in the truck.

It only takes once, hauling a trailer that heavy, loaded with 4 tons of beef, and getting into a dicey situation, to realize that the truck is not going to control and stop that size of load, in a hurry.

Don't ever get caught by DOT.

 

[speckledhen]

We had the occasion to see one of these on a dealer lot. Not having even been on a car lot in years, I had DH pull over to investigate this oddity. It was almost like it was made of cardboard inside-just gave me that impression. Not a car for the mountains of N. GA., more of a city play car. In fact, if I was going down the highway at the Smart Car's top speed, whatever that is, I'd be afraid to open the windows, lest we go into a wiffle ball spin, LOL!

The salesman told us that the owner had put $5000 of extras on that car, then traded it in after a couple of years for a brand new Camaro, which tells me he was just playing when he originally bought it.

 

[franklinstreetwest]

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[StupidBird]

WHIFFLE BALL!!!

I can't wait to tell DH that one, thank you!