Tag: coil springs

Roadbuilding
Handling Ice
A school for your pickup + equipment trailer winter drives.
March 6, 2013
The Bridgestone Winter Driving School designed a special trailer for snow-tow training behind the school’s F-250 4×4 diesel. The truck has a manual brake controller that is operated by the instructor from the passenger’s seat. The trailer, loaded with several thousand pounds of water in a tank above the axles, is equipped with stabilizing cables on giant coil springs attached between the tongue and mid-frame. The system was designed by the school to limit the amount of jackknife on the pickup-trailer combination. This custom setup saves the tow vehicle from damage and helps students learn corrective driving skills quicker. –LW
Pickups
Shop Talk
Construction trucks take quite a beating, so there’s no time better than the present to have a look around.
February 16, 2011
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