Towing U-Haul with 23’ Ranger Tremor

[rangerjonathan]

Safe travels.

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[rangerjonathan]

Keep us posted along the way...what you experience and what cool things you see.

I sure will. Just picked up the trailer, today is loading and cleaning up the old apartment, tomorrow starts the drive. Did my first official 20 minutes of trailer driving and didn’t hit anything! Backing up is hard.

 

[Chris M]

I sure will. Just picked up the trailer, today is loading and cleaning up the old apartment, tomorrow starts the drive. Did my first official 20 minutes of trailer driving and didn’t hit anything! Backing up is hard.

Backing up is indeed hard, and a short trailer will start to get turned quickly.
Don't make large steering wheel movements when backing.
Idle speed at best backwards.
As was mentioned earlier put one hand bottom center of steering wheel...move right for trailer to go right, left for trailer to go left.
Think ahead as much as possible when you need to park so you can pull in and then pull out when leaving.

You'll do fine.

 

[rangerjonathan]

Hitting the road in about an hour gents. (Finished moving out at 9pm so stayed with a friend last night to get some rest)
I feel like I did a good job having even weight and heaviest stuff to the front of the trailer with packing it, and strapped everything down real good so nothing is budging.
7” drop hitch could maybe have been nice vs the 5” but the 5” seems to be working just great.

 

[Dereku]

You got it. If you made it through the city, highway is easy.

 

[rangerjonathan]

You got it. If you made it through the city, highway is easy.

Well, “city” haha. North Raleigh over to Cary 25min to stay at my friends last night, but Raleigh/Cary the whole triangle is so small compared to real cities that it doesn’t feel like city driving. I spent almost 7 years in Denver and by the end the driving was starting to get really bad.

 

[rangerjonathan]

Realistically how fast do y’all think I can go on the highway? (Trailer rated for 55mph)

 

[IdahoRanger]

Realistically how fast do y’all think I can go on the highway? (Trailer rated for 55mph)

Well, we have 80mph limits in parts of Idaho so to keep from getting run over I went 80, the local 55.

 

[rangerjonathan]

Drove the first 8ish hours, 500 miles today. I’d say I averaged 75mph and for the most part y’all were right, the truck basically didn’t notice it was attached. Slight drop to mileage but actually not that bad, usually it’s 21mpg but it winded up averaging out to 19.6/19.7mph this trip.
I think the trailer should hold up at 75mph average, nothing inside moved around at all either, it’s all strapped down well. But is there anyone who advises against driving over the 55mph rating?
Onto Milwaukee tomorrow.

 

[Frenchy]

As long as the trailer is not swaying a bunch then chances are you will be fine. That said make sure you drive to conditions. Better to keep things safe.

 

[rangerjonathan]

As long as the trailer is not swaying a bunch then chances are you will be fine. That said make sure you drive to conditions. Better to keep things safe.

I really didn’t notice much trailer sway at all and I was really vigilant today about constantly checking my sides and looking behind me. But indeed drive to conditions, hit some fog, wind and rain driving through some valleys of West Virginia today and definitely slowed down.

 

[OGMix376]

The trailer rating is a legality thing for the most part… most areas have a trailer speed limit of 55… also they could just be poopy tires with a low speed rating..(it’ll be indicated on the tires via a letter rating which you can google for the top speed of that tire in ideal conditions.)

 

[OGMix376]

I really didn’t notice much trailer sway at all and I was really vigilant today about constantly checking my sides and looking behind me. But indeed drive to conditions, hit some fog, wind and rain driving through some valleys of West Virginia today and definitely slowed down.

Sounding like a seasoned veteran already, keep that head on a swivel stay cautious… even though you are pulling a dingy ?… it’s great practice. Glad to hear it’s good rollings so far.

 

[rangerjonathan]

Sounding like a seasoned veteran already, keep that head on a swivel stay cautious… even though you are pulling a dingy ?… it’s great practice. Glad to hear it’s good rollings so far.

The amount of times I’ve told myself “these other guys are hauling 6-8,000lbs like it’s nothing! Don’t be a b*tch!” ? so far, so good.

 

[Frenchy]

The amount of times I’ve told myself “these other guys are hauling 6-8,000lbs like it’s nothing! Don’t be a b*tch!” ? so far, so good.

The Ranger has a maximum capacity of 7500 lbs for a reason. If it wasn't capable then it wouldn't be rated. It's the same idea for my 2012 Frontier. Yes the body has a maximum capacity of 6500 lbs, but the configuration is rated for 6100 lbs. Though I do have a Natural V6, it still does the job and that is thanks to how it was engineered.

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