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Hey guys! Sorry for the late reply, been busy but wanted to let y’all know I made it to Washington! 5.5 days, 3,000 miles, the truck was an absolute beast and everything with the trailer was solid, nothing happened and nothing moved. Nailed it! THANK YOU EVERYONE!!

Roger that I appreciate the input helps ease my Mind a bit

Not to mention, I got my truck fully serviced before I left North Carolina so they definitely checked on my tire pressure and my tire quality before I left

The truck says that it should be 39 for cold tire pressure currently my tires are reading 42 and 43. Do you think that is OK hauling a trailer?

Hey guys, I’m noticing that my psi on my tires is around 4243 because it got really hot today driving through Minnesota. Is this something I should be worried about or plan to air down my tires? I normally have my tires around 40 psi maybe 39.

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.

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.

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...

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

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.

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...

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.

Thank you!

There’s really only a few basic kinds at Home Depot and stuff around me, I’ll probably end up getting one of them like you said just to have something. Tomorrow (today, it’s 1:16am haha) is the last day in town, picking up the trailer at 10am, loading her up and it’ll just be me, the...

What do y’all use for security when it comes to the trailer? (Theft, etc) I’ve seen some really poor reviews on some coupler locks and things.

Any advice on right/left hand turns, particularly in mild city driving? I will be driving literally across country so there will be some areas that I’m bound to have some tight turns.

Thank you very much, I’m definitely not going to be getting cocky with it, getting there in one piece is all I care about, I have my drive planned out and it’ll be a few 8hr drive days and one 10hr drive and one 4hr drive, and that’s with some wiggle room. Plan is to take my time, focus on the...

I’ve taken all of your advices into consideration! I went with the 5” drop hitch, just went to U-Haul, tested out the setup it went perfectly, and someone there was super helpful as well. Made the reservation, now just to load it and hit the road in a few days! Thank you ALL of you, seriously, I...

And this is where the newbie part of me kicks in, I barely understood half of that (not your fault, I’m learning!) I just wish it clicked in my brain so I can use the advice!

I’m pretty sure you’re right and I’m pretty sure it has the tow package. It does indeed have the trailer button and I’ll definitely take a look in the manual.