It can very well tear up a fender well, but at least you still got 5 tires on the ground keeping everything tracking straight and easy to maeuver til you can find a place to park..

But the SRW's ride "soooo much better"..




***unless its on the RIM! lol!!

yeah I dont know. Dont matter what set up you had I think you would have had the same result. Two tires or one tire you would have gotten screwed here.

Yeah, What he said, I have had duallys all my life, and yes I have had torn up fenders from a couple of blowouts, but with 5 tires touching the ground, not 3 and a rim, you can get to a safe place to deal with it, not on the side of the highway with semi's blowing past your azz at 75 MPH. Call me crazy but I am just not to fond of those shoulder of the road tire changes. That's why I love triple axle trilers also. And trust me I probably have more miles towing big trailers and boats cross country than the next 100 guys combined. Just my opinion though.

Obviously you (and others) are directing this at me. I hope you do not represent Active Thunder boats. Not very professional on your part.

BTW, do your boats come on Dually boat trailers? Thats what I thought. So stop talking till you can provide pics.

By looking at the truck there is prior damage all over it! Proving that the driver does not care about his rig. Having a dually, with a neglegent driver would result in the same outcome. You think a person this lazy even checks the tire pressure of his inside dualls? I know the majority of OSO'ers dont either.

What happens if it was a front tire? Dually would make no difference.

Is he alive, yes. Is he safe at a rest stop, yes. Was he a dumb a** to drive on a flat tire, yes. Would a dually make the event any safer, NO! He is safe, he did not wreck, and even if he was wishing he had a dually, what would it do for him? He still would be sitting in the same place he is now!

Who are you talking to? Not me I hope.

OE,

Relax.
This post wasn't directed toward you or anyone else.

Yes, I do represent AT. And we build boats, not trailers.

LMAO

Again, you act with disrespect towards me!? LOL! WOW!

How do you know that the tire was not just low on air and the stupid driver kept driving, heating it up, till it came apart. This could have happened while limping down the shoulder at 5 mph. So how does this prove that a DRW is so much safer?

Your thread proves my original point that I made on the trailer tipping over in the wind thread. How if it was a single wheel truck you DRW Koolaid drinkers would say "bet he wishes it was a dually" "would have not happened with a dually". But you are not man enough to admit that YOU would have said something along those lines IF the tow vehicale was a SRW. You proved it here. Even though these pics prove nothing bad about a SRW. Just that the driver was stupid. Which again I have posted in every discussion about DRW vs SRW. It does not matter what rig you have, driver is the number one most important. Next is the condition of the equipment and how its maintained. Having a falling apart double dually semi to tow a boat is no safer then a well maintained SRW 3/4ton.

Again, please post pics of your dually boat trailers that you must use to haul with since they are so much safer then SRW boat trailers.

Why the reference to Dually trailers all the time? losing a tire on a tri-axle or even tandem axle really cant compare to losing a tire on the rear of a srw truck. When you lose a tire on the boat trailer, you have one or two other axles directly behind or in front of it, which will help keep the trailer straight. Granted they do tear some stuff up when they blow. Im with ya on the steer tire blowing. Thats not fun no matter what you're driving! I have had many rear drive tires blow on my semi over the years. The noise will scare the crap outta ya, but never has it even remotely affected the handling even when hauling a 65k lb trailer. Pulling off to the side of the road or the next exit isnt a problem.

My buddy has a 5th wheel tandem axle dually trailer under his 46 Black Thunder. I must say, it is pretty awesome. He tows it with his semi, and the manueverabilty with the tandem/5th wheel combo is awesome. I'd take that over my triaxle bumper pull trailer anyday. I would then pull the boat with my semi.

This happend to me last summer. Im anal about greasing/replacing bearings, adjusting brakes, making sure lights all work, tire psi up to snuff, then wham. Friggin axle snaps. Didnt feel it, just happend to look in my pass mirror, and saw smoke billowing out from the fender. Chained it up, and got it home. Called Dexter axle, trailer is a 1989, and they sent me a new one for free since it broke where the weld is that attaches the spindle to the tube. Nice!

Doooooooooooooooooode! I've been on this site for 10 years, and I have yet to attack anyone. Why would I start now????

I'd have posted the same thread, same title, 4 weeks ago, or 4 months from now!