This episode: airing (and responding to) your representative feedback on trailer sway and heavy towing and general heavy hauling highway mayhem. 

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I got a heap of interesting comments from you on that dude who threw his boat into the weeds.

Obviously these comments orbit my recent report on this disaster and how to prevent it, which (if you’ve not seen it) you can detain yourself with here: 

https://anchor.fm/autoexpert/episodes/Inside-a-holiday-towing-disaster-----and-how-you-can-prevent-one-enp12v

https://youtu.be/P7-rcSE7s6k

Most interesting comment - just this morning - from Douglas Miller:

"I was one of two tow truck drivers who recovered that boat. The boat had moved back on the trailer. (The winch support had come loose, and slid back.) The owner had said every time he got to 100km/h the car would start to wobble. The vehicle combo was also not weight balanced correctly." - Douglas Miller

Thank you very much, Douglas Miller. Audiences are a fantastic brains trust. Just awesome. See, that’s a really interesting piece of previously unknown information. Boat moves back. Trailer gets less and less stable in yaw. Makes complete sense. Driver even notices this increased propensity to sway … and yet (and this really does my head in):

There’s no evidence that he stopped and investigated the problem. Maybe he did, and he found nothing. But (I’m really trying to be charitable here) if he noticed sway starting at 100 … why not just remain below 100? You know, get back home safely and take steps to get a mechanic or a trailer joint to sort this out.

Noticing sway - which is rock-solid evidence of instability - and then driving like that is … words fail me. It’s not logical. It’s certainly not responsible behaviour.

If the trailer’s not properly load balanced, any external influence, like the Bernoulli/venturi effect on overtaking, the transverse crown - whatever - well, you’ve seen the result.

Pressing on, in the face of this evidence of a major problem, if what Mr Miller says is correct, is incomprehensible to me.