one thing that always, always ALWAYS surprises me, if how close people drive behind me when im hauling a trailer
i know i used good straps, and i know i know how to secure a load, but they dont
When I was young, dumb, and broke, I used to draft behind trailers to save gas. Nothing like 75 mpg across I-40!
Then one day I slammed into a separated tread that the truck ahead of me straddled. Only damage was to paint, luckily, but it could have been so much worse.
Suddenly an extra $40 in gas didn't seem so expensive. With the stuff I've seen and experienced since then, I like to have at least a 10 second gap around big vehicles - double that if it's an amateur in a Class A or hauling their 42' trailer with a goddamn compact pickup :realcrazy:.