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Old 04-15-2024, 05:23 PM
merlinmurph merlinmurph is offline
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Originally Posted by bigbill View Post
We were behind a triple axle travel trailer being pulled by a Chevy 3500 dually. Once we started moving, the person driving the Chevy was on the brakes almost the entire way down. You could smell the hot brakes and I had my window down and the driver was not engine braking. Several times I saw the trailer brakes lock, so either the bias was wrong, or the driver was trying to use the trailer brakes as the truck brakes faded.
That's scary stuff. Tow haul mode should downshift automatically, assuming the truck has a tow haul mode (and it was on).
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