dear all wet n westie

first of all ... jim glad to hear you and your towed vehicle driver were not
injured ...

i just did a search of oregon dot (dmv) regs 818.150 regarding  towing a
vehicle and the regs are so loose that ...
any coupling device can be used ... so long as it is rated to withstand no
more than the 5k lbs wieght of a vehicle
and the vehicle is no more than 10k lbs ...
can even be a coupling  device longer than  12 feet so long as a red flag is
tied mid way ...
wow ... i am amazed
almost every place i have lived in canada has outlawed strap and/or chain
towing due to numerous deaths
indeed fixed dolly tongues must also have a safety chain in case of ball
hitch or pintle hitch failure ...
(not to be confused with tugging out of the ditch or upset)

wow ... i had no idea there were still places that allowed people to tow
with out a fixed dolly of some nature
.... me i love the sliding deck tow trucks and use my auto club membership
for all tow jobs ...
yours

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 10:18 PM, Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Several years ago I was driving on I-5 south of Tacoma when I came up
> behind a car being towed by a strap. All of a sudden the strap broke, and
> the recoil sent the car in to a spin.
>
>  It spun around three times while all lanes of traffic screeched to to a
> near stop-then the car stopped spinning facing the direction of traffic and
> coasted to the shoulder. I really thought I was going to slam into that one.
>
> Jim, I'm sure you will never use a tow strap again.(They aren't legal in
> Washington State.)
>
> Robert
> 1982 Westfalia
>

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