Re: [A/S] Tow Vehicles

[hhamp5246@xxxxxxx]

This reminds me of when I went to my very first Airstream rally. It was at 
Palmetto Park north of Greenville, SC.

Everyone was very interested in my truck, trailer, hitch, chains etc.... I 
think because I'm a woman or maybe because they always did that to 
newbies.... my puller was a 1/2 ton Suburban with a 5.7 vortec, plenty of 
truck for the 21 foot 4,000# trailer I had back then.

As I got to talking to people there was an older couple with the identical 
1500 Suburban only it wasn't the vortec engine, it was an older model. (mine 
was a '96),  To my amazement they were pulling a 34' tri axle Excella. 

"Don't you have trouble pulling *that* trailer with that Suburban?" I asked 
as tactfully as possible.  

The nice man said, "No, well..... we did have some problems in the mountains 
in Colorado, a couple of times we had to *turn around* before we got to the 
top."  I was flabbergasted, not just because they had a puller that couldn't 
pull over mountains but because they we able to turn that rig around on the 
road.

Hunter
99 Superduty PSD 4X4
96 25' Excella