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Does any one know if you can ride in a travel trailer( not 5th wheel) in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Wyoming, or Nebraska. Just currious.

I don't know about the laws, but I dumped one on its nose in a Wyoming windstorm at about 60 mph. I can't begin to imagine what an occupant would have experienced, but it wouldn't have been good... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />.

I'm with muledeer on this one. Legal or not, I wouldn't want to be a passenger in a travel trailer moving more than 10mph. My ex's dad lost one on a curve when it came uncoupled. He never did admit what dumbazz thing led to this happening but I think the safety chain was a salvaged dog leash so the trailer didn't stay attached long enough to drag him into the ditch. It wasn't going very fast when it rolled but it broke apart into many pieces. It would have been worth some serious coin to have had my mother-in-law riding in that trailer. Ward

I've seen quite a few trailer wrecks during my travels. When push comes to shove they all turn into a pile of kindling and aluminum foil.
Most everyone I've talked to that has had a wreck was doing something stupid to get it started.
Inadequate hitch assembly, tail heavy, and soggy tires are all contributors. A single axle 16' travel trailer with a 2" coupler dropped on an 1 7/8 " ball attached to a clamp on bumper hitch is a recipe for trouble . After that comes too much trailer for the tow vehicle and then driving habits.
I'm surprised that so many people who seem reasonably intelligent in most respects are totaly clueless when it comes to towing.

Pretty much. My problem was a light 13-footer caught in a high-speed wind gust funnelled between two hills along I-25. It blew the trailer up on one wheel and the left front corner. The wind was so strong that when I got stopped it took three of us to push it back down onto two wheels. Fortunately I was towing it with a full-sized Ford 4x4 pickup and everything was pretty well tied together, so other than grinding off about six inches of the left front corner, everything was fine. Had anyone been riding in it, though, they would have been bounced around pretty well.

People try to pull the most amazing things with the most inadequate vehicles. Then they wonder why everything falls apart at the top of some mountain pass.

The people who don't know how to drive around people pulling trailors send me up the wall. They blithely pull out in front of a dually with a loaded eight-horse trailer, watch smoke boil out from under the tires, and wonder why they get the finger when I come sliding by. I've switched from pulling horses to pulling boats, but the same idiots tailgate, pull out, turn in front of, and otherwise ignore the fact that I'm pulling a few tons of semi-controlled mass.