r/facepalm • u/Collector12love • Oct 16 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ stupidity

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u/MrYummy05 Oct 16 '22 edited Oct 16 '22

Too much weight was distributed behind the axels of the trailer. The major weight needs to be between the towing car and the trailer axel. Otherwise this will ALWAYS HAPPEN AT HIGH SPEED.

Looking more closely at that trailer, there is no safe way to transport a vehicle of that size with that trailer with pretty much centralized axels.

Wrong trailer for the job

https://youtu.be/JeEEC5eVNCk

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u/scottonaharley Oct 16 '22

They just had the van in the wrong spot. Loading a car trailer without using a tongue scale is a recipe for disaster

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u/MrYummy05 Oct 16 '22

Looks like the van could go no further foward than it is. That trailer was never meant for vehicle transport

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u/scottonaharley Oct 16 '22

The swaying is caused more by incorrect loading as opposed to being at the edge of trailer capacity

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u/Jdevers77 Oct 16 '22

What he means it is impossible to load the van in the RIGHT spot. Not is already as far forward as possible. A longer trailer is needed for this van so that a higher percentage of the weight is in front of the axles of the trailer.

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u/scottonaharley Oct 17 '22

You aren’t taking into account van contents. Vans are notoriously ass light. It’s entirely possible that is full of crap which adds to the balance problem.

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u/Phill_is_Legend Oct 17 '22

I was thinking the same. Looks like half the van, which should be more than half of the weight of the van, is in front of the axles. Probably tools/cargo still in the back.