Towing travel trailer and boat

[bighunter]

in the state of arizona you cannot exceed 65 feet in lenth, but you are as everyone else stated allowed to tow with a fith wheel or goose neck and an additional trailer as long as the middle unit is heavier and equipped with trailer brakes, but not with two bumper towed trailers. thats straight from Arizona title 28 ( az traffic laws). Hope this helps.

[mschn99]

Regardless of what your pulling...the second trailer will need a sway bar at minimum and trailer brakes on both units would be advisable if the boat wieghs more than 1500 lbs with the trailer included. If the first trailer is a bumper pull...then an equilizer hits would be a neccesity there...and a way bar would be advisable....obviously none of this would be nessicary with a fifth wheel. Regardless....trailer brakes are manditory on the first trailer. Remember when towing this that if the rear trailer starts whipping...it could be ugly...thats why at minimum a sway bar is needed and an equilizer/sway bar combo isnt a bad idea....

Ive towed them before and as long as you dont get yourself in a situation where you need to back up....and you dont drive too fast.....its actually pretty easy to tow.....although the toughest parts is not always being able to see the rear trailer.....

[straycat]

Sure wouldn't hurt to have a good exaust brake on there as well. Back when I was trucking, I saw a set up like that all crumpled up at the bottom of a mountain grade, he ran out of brakes and lost control of the unite.

[JayCarotenuti]

I tow trailers for a living. What I understand that in the state of California you are required to have a class A license with doubles indorsement. Also must have control over the brakes on the rear trailer as well as the front trailer. I believe that the front trailer must be a 5th wheel but I am not sure on that. I have towed two trailers many times with know problems.

[moabtj]

Do it every weekend in the summer Hammer Down!!!

[straycat]

Nice set up, looks real good.

Gord.

[johnroach100]

This came up in a recent thread. My opinion is that nobody really knows the laws, go ahead and do what you want to do. Most states exempt RV's from the CDL and state DOT laws anyway. If you're a reasonably good driver you can handle most combinations and BS your way out of most traffic stops.

[johnroach100]

BTW, if you aren't sure about the BS thing, pm me with you email and I'll send you a pic of what I was driving on a COUNTY road avoiding a weigh station and still talked myself out of a ticket. It had few working lights, NO brakes on either trailer, and I didn't have a physical card or log book. It still makes me shudder to think about the potential for disaster there.

[f350fiver]

There are very few states that allow this type of set up. I read in a Goodsam article last year that some states are cracking down on this practice. Missouri is one of the states that allows this set up. I could not be sure of any other. I have seen several combinations across the country and talked to a few of the drivers. Only one had a problem and the officer was not sure of the law himself. Ignorance on the part of our piece officers may be on your side. thx

[goodcruisin]

The frame of the trailer may have a problem with the tonque weight of the trailer. I haven't researched every state, but most of the states that do allow tandem towing have seemed to set the limit of the overall lenght in the 60-65 feet range.