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Keith Webb · #16 24-06-11, 01:12

Hi Richard

If you look at the carrier... that's the one with the extra ballast, not the truck!

EDIT: The trailer with the cab 12 is a 6 ton recovery trailer as you will have noted. Braking tests were carried out at 10mph, 20mph and 30mph and they noted a transfer of weight to the front wheels of the truck.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Richard Farrant

Keith,
Having the truck loaded with ballast would help a bit, at least it might stop the trailer lifting the rear of the truck off the ground.

There was an occurence once, where an Army Bedford MK 4x4 4 tonner towing a tandem axle tiltbed trailer with a Fox armoured car on it, lost it in a big way when the trailer took over, it ended up that the trailer rotated around the towing eye, wiping the Fox off the bed (chain restraints broke), leaving the truck standing with trailer still attached, but upside down. I am sure the Bedford would have been unladen. Scary !