elcoyote
Supporting Sponsor, Overland Certified OC0004
Often this question comes up. It is one thing for us to describe why we build our trailers the way we do in anticipation of rigorous duty and our own testing, it is another thing when our customers run our trailers through their paces and come back to us with amazing stories such as this:
"Driving home from Prescott, I hit all kinds of weather and the teardrop did very well. I even pulled a car and some guys out of a ravine in Oregon during a snow storm.
About 30 miles from home while crossing a river bridge, an individual driving too fast for the conditions came up behind me, switched lanes, and promptly starting sliding on the ice on the bridge. His car turned and the passenger side of his vehicle slammed into the rear of the teardrop. Then the car and the teardrop slid up even with the FJ and crashed into the side of the FJ. The trailer was between the other car and the FJ. I managed to stop the FJ before it slid into the guardrail.
If you need proof that your trailer can take a good beating, use the pics. I think the frame is okay. I would have towed it home except the hitch was snapped off and the hitch in the receiver was bent at an angle I have never seen before".
There's a reason why we do what we do and why compliance is so important to us. The pictures tell the story of a violent impact and yet relatively light damage to the trailer. A lesser trailer would not have fared so well.
"Driving home from Prescott, I hit all kinds of weather and the teardrop did very well. I even pulled a car and some guys out of a ravine in Oregon during a snow storm.
About 30 miles from home while crossing a river bridge, an individual driving too fast for the conditions came up behind me, switched lanes, and promptly starting sliding on the ice on the bridge. His car turned and the passenger side of his vehicle slammed into the rear of the teardrop. Then the car and the teardrop slid up even with the FJ and crashed into the side of the FJ. The trailer was between the other car and the FJ. I managed to stop the FJ before it slid into the guardrail.
If you need proof that your trailer can take a good beating, use the pics. I think the frame is okay. I would have towed it home except the hitch was snapped off and the hitch in the receiver was bent at an angle I have never seen before".
There's a reason why we do what we do and why compliance is so important to us. The pictures tell the story of a violent impact and yet relatively light damage to the trailer. A lesser trailer would not have fared so well.
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