Automobile design has improved immensely since the first mass-produced cars of the 20th century. You and the public benefit from the countless safety enhancements made in the last century every time you drive your car. However, all of that is circumvented when a trailer is improperly hitched to a car or truck. The safest car in the world can cause a deadly crash if it unleashes a runaway trailer onto the highway. Losing your trailer can also cause you to lose control and get into a car accident. Safely hitching.
When a 3,000 pound car and an 80,000 pound truck collide, the outcome is often grim. Some of these accidents could have been avoided had the driver in the car knew how to share the road with large trucks. Many motorists treat trucks as just another vehicle on the road which is a mistake. Large trucks can’t slow down as rapidly as cars. Trucks also have huge blind spots and require lots of road space for maneuvering. In short, trucks are radically different from ordinary cars and must be treated as such..