 Driving with a trailer across the southwest us |
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| Driving with my daughters apartment furnishings in a trailer attached to my car - across the U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Clarky2 Irene Hendrick Post Count: 6 Msg: #1 106 days ago, August 6th 2009 | Any suggestions as to parking, places to visit, etc. with a 5' x 8' trailer attached to my car. I'm transporting a bedroom full of stuff across country and would like to go the southern route from Boston to California. Ideas anyone? I have a feeling I should maybe stay clear of the congested big cities....though I do want to see Charleston and Savannah. |  Dymphna Lee Ann Post Count: 451 Msg: #2 102 days ago, August 10th 2009 | Driving with a trailer is not as easy as you think. Getting into lanes is harder, because it takes more room. Parking - good luck. Remember to make your turns very wide! Have someone teach you how to back up a trailer, it is very difficult until you have had some practice. | Clarky2 Irene Hendrick Post Count: 6 Msg: #3 102 days ago, August 10th 2009 | Many thanks. I'm trying not to have to take it, but its looking like I might need to...... any by-road suggestions of sights to see without going into the big cities would be much appreciated. | Dymphna Lee Ann Post Count: 451 Msg: #4 102 days ago, August 10th 2009 | What time of the year are you going to be driving it. Traffic will be lighter through the northern states - but in the winter it might be icy. | Best way my grandfather taught how to back a trailer. Put your hand at the bottom of the wheel w/ your thumb pointing out. If you want the trailer to go left, move your wheel so your hand moves left & vice versa. Part of the way through the turn you will want to turn the wheel back the other way before it jack-knifes and you can turn the truck to follow it. Clarky2 Irene Hendrick Post Count: 6 Msg: #5 102 days ago, August 10th 2009 | I'm leaving Boston area next week Tuesday 18th. So will be driving through the hot states. And thanks for that info re turning - I read that somewhere else too. My only problem is where I'm going to park the car/trailer once I get into a city - there's not that many double size parking meters available at the same time.....I guess I'll have to also find hotels/motels where you just "continue driving on through" and don't have to keep backing in and backing out of the parking space...... Believe me, I have been seeing if it makes sense cost wise to ship some of this stuff I'm going to be hauling, but the trailer/hitch costs about $600 and shipping costs way more..... | Clarky2 Irene Hendrick Post Count: 6 Msg: #6 102 days ago, August 10th 2009 | I'm not going up north at all, been there done that. I plan on going Southwest - want to see Savannah and Charleston and visit New Orleans again, and then up to Santa Fe and on to California..... | Dymphna Lee Ann Post Count: 451 Msg: #7 102 days ago, August 10th 2009 | It might help to watch for where trucks park. Often times they have parking lots where they can just pull through. At truck stops and the such are such places. | Number of Users: 2 | Number of Posts: 7 | |||||||||||||||
