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Originally Posted by dieselcrawler
I'm glad to hear someone pins the latch on their trailers... I was helping a friend of mine load a truck the other day, his dad met us there with the his '02 F-250 and the son's trailer. As we come-along a dead Blazer onto the trailer, the hitch jumps off the ball... my friend and I both think the ol' man never even latched it, let alone used a pin to hold the latch down... swore up and down he did... trailer had been sitting, no scrapes in the rust where the latch would have moved if he had... poor ol' feller... don't even think he realized how easy he could have hurt one of us... scared me good... glad I din't have to follow him home, he didn't chain the Blazer down well eather... I tried to do what I could to sugjest the right way, but I wasn't gonna argue with my friends ol' man like that...
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No offense, but if they are your friends, they will respect your opinion especially when it comes to safety. I padlock my latch, it also prevents someone from unhooking your trailer and stealing it off of your truck, or it prevents soemone from unhooking the latch as a joke.