 QuickBite
Coupler: You'll love this coupler and want to
replace what you have ! I did, No more in and out of
your truck to see how close you are to the trailer or if you're
centered and you know how much fun it is asking for help to back
up. You'll hear the coupler snap when it's latches. It self
aligns your trailer ball, automatically latches and locks. It
doesn't get easier or faster. Comes with it's own alignment rods
that stick up over your tailgate to
watch through your rear view mirror.
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 The world is a better place
because Henry Ford decided to quit working for Thomas Edison and
struck out on his own to invent the first assembly line.
Cimarron Trailers carries on the American tradition of starting their
own company to prove they can build a better custom progressive
horse trailer.
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 Cody
Hitch, Cushion & Coupler
Protect your Living
Quarters gooseneck investment in your horse trailer. Cody
Cushion from Cody Hitch has one air bag, and a double hinge. Up
and down and front and back cushion. They will adapt to
 Cody
Hitch, B&W and Popup truck bed hitches. With today's Living
Quarter horse trailers, you need protection for the fine
cabinets and mirrors.
Order now for $449
The Cody gooseneck ball is turned over
from the top to give you a completely usable truck bed. The
safety chain eyelets are unique as they fit into the ball socket
instead of having 4 more holes in your truck bed for U-bolts.
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NEW and Improved
You're going to love this newly redesigned
PopUp 2 Hitch.
Smoother acting and
trouble free. They've made the best hitch even better.
One pull of the handle to raise the ball is all it will take to
convince you that this is the hitch you want. Simply pull the rod to raise the ball and push
to lower it from your trucks wheelwell.
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Finally
an aftermarket hay/cargo rack for all the extra space you're
looking for. And it bolts together. Easy to assemble, all
aluminum, extruded frame rails will fit most trailers of all
sizes. Comes with a ladder. Now you're ready for hay, generator,
water tank, tack boxes or anything else you need more room for.
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North American
Trailer Dealers Association finally gives the industry some pull.
(www.natda.org)
hopes to enlist the estimated 7,500 dealers that sell light and medium
duty trailers including cargo, utility, horse, livestock, race cars, toy
haulers and other trailers. The auto industry has NADA & the RV folks have the RVDA. Now
trailer dealers have us & each other."
Said Amy Rubenstein NATDA VP & Co-Founder.
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 Triple
T Sales Montana Tractors
I've owned several loader tractors
in my decades on the farm, backhoe business & custom haying.
Montana's have what I look, solid easy to maneuver tractor.
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Summit Hauler
1-800-909-7071
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 Updates
from each event, pictures & commentary,
MrTruck.com
Presents:
"Hart Horse Trailer Safety and Tech Tour," With
the latest trailer safety and technology accessories on
exhibit on tour, come by and watch demonstrations We'll
be displaying some helpful technology for safe towing. Stop by,
see our display and ask questions.
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 Rollin’
Rollin’ Rollin’ … Keep that Trailer Rolling…’
By Stephen
Louie “Hosspuller”
One
of the worst things to happen with a horse trailer is a
mechanical break down on the road. If you have never been
there, thank your lucky stars. There are... reasons
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North
American Trailer Dealers Association finally gives the industry
some pull.
(www.natda.org)
enlisting dealers that sell light and medium duty trailers including
cargo, utility, horse, livestock, race cars, toy haulers and
various other trailers. The auto industry has NADA and the RV folks have the RVDA. Now the trailer
dealers have us and each other." Said Amy Rubenstein NATDA Vice
President and Co-Founder.
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Superchips Announces All-New
Cortex Vehicle Performance Programmer Line with a Two-Year
Powertrain Warranty The
Superchips Cortex comes with all of the same great features that
Superchips’ users have come to love, including programming up to
three performance tunes to enhance power, economy, and
drivability. These features include the ability to save factory
settings; program for performance, towing, or economy; tune
transmission settings for improved drivability; read and clear
diagnostic trouble codes; adjust speed and RPM limiters; and
recalibrate speedometer/odometer for tire and gear swaps.
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Affordable Injectors
By Jake Morton
For many of us
with 1994-1997 Ford Power Stroke Diesel’s, there is a limit to
how much horsepower we can make. In 1999, Ford redesigned some
things and power levels went up considerably, especially when
adding aftermarket devices. For a long time, all the early
Power Stroke owners could do was a chip or programmer, exhaust,
and an air intake. Anything else was just out of the question,
price wise, for most hobbyists, daily drivers, and
do-it-yourselfers. But now.....
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Electricity, far from the
City … And everyone else. By: Hosspuller
Once upon a time,
horse camping meant a canvas tent to keep from getting wet and a
saddle for a pillow. Today, horse camping means a horse trailer
rig with all the features of … home. Electricity makes a
person comfortable, at home and at camp. The opposite is also
true; electricity can make a person dead, at home and at
camp. This article is about your camping rig operating on 120
volt AC current and a Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter (GFCI or
GFI).
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BrakeSmart,
the
BEST trailer brake controller is back!!! I haven't seen or
tried a better one & would be glad to review all challengers.
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 Truck Accessories
from the Factory or Aftermarket?
We
can't resist accessorizing trucks to fit our needs as well as our personality.
It's common to spend another $3000 on accessories after we buy the
truck. Trailer hitches, brake controllers,
running boards, as well as performance mods to the engine and
transmission, add up quickly. Top selling accessories are....
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They are bold and sexy!
I consider them the best built mudflaps I've found. The new model has a polished
aluminum yoke, and heavy wall
aluminum tubing. Still adjustable in, out and up, down. Which is so good for my truck reviews which range from a tall
H2 to a Nissan Frontier. And I review new trailers too, any mudflaps can
protect your trailers from mud, that's a slow speed problem. But the
damage comes from....
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New Truck Repair Technology
comes to Horse Trailers
 If you follow
my articles, you know how big a fan of new technology I am. At the new
Transwest Truck Trailer RV facility, is an
awesome machine called a Road Simulator. Looks kind of like a dyno, but
does use rollers to test brakes rolling resistance and balance. Transwest uses it to test all their new horse trailers so
they are ready for your roads. It can find
just a torn axle seal leaking on the brakes. It would surprise you how
many "new axles" on new trailers are over greased, limiting your trailer
brakes ability. With the kind of traffic we
pull trailers in, testing brakes becomes routine. And worn suspension
maybe be causing your rig to ....More....
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 USRider
News Releases for horse safety.
Lexington, Ky. (Feb. 9, 2006) –
USRider urges manufacturers of horse trailers to improve their
wiring practices. Trailers flex and move constantly when being
towed, so it is imperative that proper wiring techniques be used
to ensure the proper and continual functioning of a trailer’s
electrical systems.
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 Now
there's help for the short-short beds. New from PopUp, the
SB116. The long short bed solution. It's "16" inches
of extension. Before you loose your pickup trucks rear window or
worse, check out the solution. Shortbed trucks are the most
popular. But the trailer manufactures don't know it yet. Finally
backup with the tailgate down and without hitting the propane
tanks.
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HEAVY-DUTY PICKUP PLANS HALTED
Both Nissan and Toyota say they have ceased plans to
enter the heavy-duty market.
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USRider Cautions Horse Owners about Carbon
Monoxide Poisoning.
Lexington, Ky., (Oct. 15, 2007) –
Two children and their grandparents from Tomah, Wis., were
killed by carbon monoxide fumes inside the horse trailer where
they were sleeping the night of Oct. 11. The family runs a
well-known Clydesdale horse-breeding operation called Clay’s
Clydesdales. They were in Madison, Wis., for the World
Clydesdale Show.
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the Bad, &
the
Ugly.
 We
know most of you can't test drive vehicles
for very long, nor do they let you pull trailers with them.
That's why we review trucks and SUV's longer and try to pull trailers
with all of them
to find their strengths and weaknesses. We test trucks & SUV's that are
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Towing
Reviews & News.
Matching Trucks & Trailers |
 First
time I herded Buffalo, I mean Bison and my first trip to
Yellowstone, was a kick driving the all
new 2008 Toyota Land Cruiser 200 series. The Land
Cruiser was Toyota's first vehicle to the US back in 1957. he
Cruiser, makes a great tow vehicle. The ride and handling is
smooth, you're in a solid vehicle with very little outside
influence like wind making no difference with a heavy 5690 lb
curb weight. The Land Cruiser has the tightest steering I can
remember. This makes driving fatigue go away.
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 I visited
PopUp's head quarters in Chanute Kansas
this spring. Kansas, like Iowa is know for making farm machinery. PopUp
Industries is in the part of Kansas, where generations of
welders understand quality metal working, like the Amish bring
quality to RV manufacturing. What better place to make hitches for American trucks and
trailers. I first heard of PopUp because of their SB1 shortbed coupler
(picture below).
With shortbed trucks, now the most popular configuration, I
hear from folks every week emailing me that they just crunched the cab
of their truck with the corner of their trailer. Now what do they do?
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From
www.fuelpub.com
Big Win for Biodiesel: ASTM Approves
New Biodiesel Blend Specifications.
The biodiesel industry is
celebrating today following last
night’s final vote by the ASTM
International D02 Main Committee to
approve a trio of long-awaited ASTM
specifications for biodiesel blends.
After more than five years of
extensive research and subsequent
balloting by the ASTM fuel experts
in the blended fuel balloting
process, ASTM has finally voted to
approve three key sets of biodiesel
specifications that should
significantly bolster automaker
support and consumer demand for
biodiesel:
#1Changes to the existing B100
biodiesel blend stock specification
(ASTM D6751) #2 Finished
specifications to include up to 5%
biodiesel (B5) in the conventional
petrodiesel specification (ASTM
D975) #3
A new
specification for blends of between
6 percent biodiesel (B6) to 20
percent biodiesel (B20) for on and
off road diesel.
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  On
the road repair welding. The military has GOWELD and plasma
cutters in many of their Humvees, tanks and armored personal
carriers. GOWELD is very
portable, the wire spool is in the handle. Just clamp the cables
to your trucks batteries, run the hose to a tank of Argon gas or
use coated wire and you're ready to weld anywhere.
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  BIGFOOT
Trailer Jacks; Ever cranked a heavy trailer jack by hand?
Even the 2 speed jacks wear you out. Electric
jacks are cheaper, hydraulic jack are faster and made for heavy use.
Bigfoot has a steel oil reservoir
that the hydraulic motor mounts to instead of a plastic tank
that I see on other brands and the cover stays
on.
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 Highly Anticipated Sterling
Bullet™ Revealed
New Mid-Range Conventional
Truck Features Powerful Cummins Engine
Arriving at dealerships now.
INDIANAPOLIS - Sterling Truck Corporation
has a tough new vehicle in its lineup: the Sterling Bullet™.
This highly anticipated chassis-cab product was introduced today
at the NTEA Work Truck Show 2007 in Indianapolis. The Bullet is
the latest addition to the company's full line of Class 3-8 work
trucks and will be available at select Sterling dealerships now.
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Old Guard 2007 GM trucks and
Sundowner, New Kids on the Block Toyota Tundra and Lakota.
  GM has the trucks that have towed
horse trailers for close to a century back before the Apache model and
Toyota has towed horse trailers since the T100, 7 years ago. For the
trailer team we have the new Lakota aluminum trailer, that I first saw
at last years All American Quarter Horse Congress in Ohio, with their
HUT bumper pull LQ. Then there's Sundowner's most popular trailer,
the SunLite 727, with a proven track record.
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Coming to the US. You want a truck that doesn't need fuel and
can carry
4,400 lb. payload. It has a turning radius
of just 36 feet, and a range in excess of 100 miles on a
single charge. Well of course it's electric. And it's kind of
cute. On it's way from the UK,
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 Longer
2008 Nissan Titan.
Longer beds, more payloads, the Titan reaches for more
customers. Last
year I drove across the bridge that collapsed in Minnesota across the
mighty Mississippi twice, once going to the Minnesota Horse Expo and to
the 2008 Nissan Titan press preview traveling from Minnesota to
Wisconsin. Off-roading at Apple Valley Farms near Sand Creek, Wisconsin,
the new e-locker rear differential lock that you turn off and on. did
well in the muddy trail.
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Trailer
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 USRIDER
Teams with EKU to Offer Animal Rescue Training Everywhere
in America thousands of large animals are transported through
our communities daily. They are moving over our streets, roads
and highways. Whenever a transportation emergency occurs, local
first responders are called. Without specific knowledge,
training and equipment, the possibility of the first responders
becoming injured is very real. 2 seminars scheduled for April,
open to the public, with emphasis on recruiting fire and EMT
responders, veterinarians and others. The training will educate
fire/rescue personnel, first responders, veterinarians and horse
enthusiasts about techniques and procedures to assist.....More.... |
INTERNATIONAL® RXT TM
HAULER TO BE PRESENTED TO
WINNING TRAINER OF 133rd
KENTUCKY DERBY
WARRENVILLE,
Ill. (Nov. 9, 2007) – International Truck and Engine
Corporation, a Navistar company, will be presenting Carl Nafzger
with an International® RXTTM Hauler at Churchill
Downs on Nov. 9, 2007. Carl will be awarded the truck for being
the winning trainer of the 133rd Kentucky Derby.
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 Featherlite
SURV, a heavy duty trailer for your Toys. We camp at Tiger Run in
Breckenridge and Circus Circus Koa in Vegas. We installed
Power Vision mirrors, Hell-Ya Hitch Helper, Valley Odyssey brake
controller and Truck Bedz. Featherlite built an "off-road" toy hauler
that's made like a tank, so you can get to the prime remote locations
for 4-wheeling or 2-wheeling or just a HQ for outdoor adventure.
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 2008
Ford Super Duty, Round Two for 60 Years of the F-Series.
Last month I got to play on almost 4000
acres of the Fords Michigan Proving Grounds. Towing trailers (my
favorite sport) up and down Fords 7 and 15% grades. Ford provided a few
Dodge and GM diesels to try out beside the Fords at the renovated
proving grounds. Sand wash, mud, off-road course, mud, replica of the
famous Silver Creek torture track, all means FUN !
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 SAE
Trailer Standards; finally some rules for matching your
truck and trailer. Mike Levine of PickupTruck.com reports
on the upcoming Society of Automotive Engineers standard with
collaboration from truck, trailer and hitch manufactures.
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New CAFE
standards allow for towing considerations from RVI
While
the new levels will encompass a majority of vehicles that
tow RVs, there is good news for the RV industry in the
legislation.
President Bush signed into law
the first increase in automobile fuel economy in 32 years,
mandating automobile manufacturers meet a (CAFE) standard of
35 miles per gallon (mpg) by 2020.
First,
separate fuel economy standards for cars and trucks will be
maintained with different standards to be set for pickup
trucks weighing between 8,500 and 10,000 pounds and for
medium- and heavy-duty trucks. Second, the framework will allow consideration of vehicle towing
capacity.
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  Tired
of your headlights shining in the trees? Stinger
Hitch Helper introduces a dually version.
Rated for 2000# tongue weight. Stinger Hitch,
simple to attach to your receiver hitch and then just add trailer or
cargo, what a difference it makes ! Improve your truck or SUV's
handling. Stinger Hitch Helper use it when you need it. Take if off when
you don't. Using your truck to haul loads and trailers shouldn't be a
dramatic event. Feel safe again with this new load stabilizing helper.
See the details, pictures and video for safer towing and a level rig...
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Stinger
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2008 Chevrolet
Silverado, GMC Sierra 1500 Series Trucks Only Full-Size Pickups With Top
Five-Star Side-Impact Safety Rating
DETROIT, Mich. - The 2008 Chevrolet
Silverado and GMC Sierra 1500 Series pickup trucks have received the
federal government's highest side-impact crash rating - five stars -
making Silverado and Sierra the industry's only full-size pickups to
earn this top rating.
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 TEN
WAYS 2008 FORD F-150 STANDS OUT FROM THE PACK.
Ford F-Series, America’s truck
leader for 30 consecutive years, sets the standard for strength
and toughness – with more trucks on the road with over 250,000
miles than any other brand. Ford continues to raise the bar to
give truck customers more of what they’re looking for. The 2008
Ford F-150 introduces new models, features and options that take
“Built Ford Tough” to a new level. Here’s a look at just a few
of the ways the F-150
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 Trail riding and
Travel N Corrals go hand in hand. Easy to take with you, easy to
setup. Horses tied to a trailer for hours can cause problems.
Keep your horses relaxed in a roomy corral as you enjoy the
great outdoors between rides. Sleep well at night with your
Travel N Corrals placed where you want them and in plain site of
your bedroom window. If you go to high
school rodeo's, you will see portable corrals everywhere.
Families enjoying each other and security for the horses when
everyone is running.....
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Heavy Duty Pickup
Trucks, New Race. The Year of Emissions.
 The
excitement builds with each jet ride to the next new truck media
launch, biggest year I can remember for major truck changes.
Most of it brought about by the new low emission laws for diesel
engines that began January 07. GM totally redesigned the whole
truck. Ford has the most mechanical changes with a new nose and
diesel engine, Dodge changed the diesel for the new emissions
law and reintroduced it's CC model.
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2004 Dodge Cummins HO Budget Hop
Up by Gary Scott
I got my first
diesel in the fall of 2003. I was nearing retirement age and my
wife and I decided that a pickup and travel trailer would be he best
combination for us as I wanted to keep the pickup bed open to haul
my dirt bikes and mountain bike. We were really looking for a low
mileage used diesel because I'm a Scotsman and try to save where I
can. You'll see examples of my frugality as you read on.
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GM Plans First Light Duty V-8
Clean Diesel for North America
 TONAWANDA,
N.Y. – General Motors Corp. will introduce a new, state-of-the-art
4.5L V-8 Duramax turbo-diesel that improves engine fuel efficiency by 25
percent, reduces CO2 emissions by 13 percent and cuts particulates and
NOx emissions by at least 90 percent for North American light duty
trucks and the HUMMER H2 built after 2009.
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 Circle
the wagons, pickup trucks from India are headed this way. They
already sell tractors here,
Mahindra brand.
All of the vehicles will be
four-wheel drive, turbo-charged with "clean diesel" technology
and get up to 39 miles per gallon. Coming late 2008, the
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  New
2007 Tundra, the Limo that Tows Trailers Fast,
2007 Tundra introduced at the National Western Stock
Show & Detroit Auto Show. Nice for Toyota's
50 anniversary to introduce a true full size truck. Known as dependable, Toyota trucks may now set benchmarks for how
full size trucks are designed. I'm impressed.
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Sandhills Body Guard. Went 260 miles to the sandhills of Nebraska at
Cow Country Sales and Service to get my deer deflector. Just 60
miles North of Ogallala, we attached the replacement bumper. My
worry towing trailers across the country, is hitting a deer and
night and loosing my radiator, intercooler, water pump etc. Then
I'd be stuck waiting for parts. This rugged bumper even kills
bugs.
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  Featherlite SURV, a heavy duty trailer for your Toys. We camp at Tiger
Run in Breckenridge and Circus Circus Koa in Vegas. We installed
Power Vision mirrors,
Hell-Ya
Hitch Helper, Valley Odyssey
brake controller and Truck Bedz. Featherlite built an "off-road" toy
hauler that's made like a tank, so you can get to the prime
remote locations for 4-wheeling or 2-wheeling or just a HQ for
outdoor adventure.
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 Popup
Industries RV3 5th-Wheel to
Gooseneck Adapter Do you have too
many hitches for all of your different trailers? There’s bumper
pull, gooseneck, fifth wheel, you name it there’s just too many
combinations out there sometimes. Pop up industries helps out
here by offering their fifth wheel to gooseneck adapters. This
handy little product allows you to tow your fifth wheel camper
using the gooseneck hitch you already have in the bed of your
truck thus eliminating one hitch from your collection. Pop up
industries has been around for years starting with their PopUp
Gooseneck ball hitch and now with many hitch extensions for
short bed trucks,
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 USRider
Urges Horse Owners to Use Air Pressure Monitor
Electronic Device
Helps Prevent Dangerous Blowouts. Lexington, Ky.
(Sept. 8, 2006) – Flat tires are the leading cause of
disablements involving horse trailers. USRider is involved
in a research project with Dr. Tomas Gimenez to test the
benefit (if any) of using air vs. nitrogen to inflate tow
vehicle and horse trailer tires. An electronic air-pressure
monitoring system is being used to assist with the research.
During the research, Dr. Gimenez and USRider have noted
significant safety benefits resulting from using this
system.
Rest of
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 Logan
Coach review, Logan built steel trailers and then in
2004 they added the XT & XTR aluminum skinned horse trailers as
consumer demand for aluminum skin trailers grows. I toured the
Logan factory, seeing new innovations I hadn't seen before. Like
the rod on the drop down windows that you can easily reach no
matter what your height is. Even the slam latches on escape
doors (right) are lower than I've seen on other horse
trailers....More... |
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USRider Shares Tip with Horse Owners to Avoid
Lockout. With
advancing technology, life continues to become a bit easier.
USRider would like to warn its members about is the potential of
being locked out of a vehicle. This can happen when two very
common technological conveniences get too close – your cell
phone may scramble the electronics in your key fob. Instances of
this scrambling have already been reported with the....read
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USRider Reminds Drivers, Dangers of Using Cell
Phones While Driving.
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Featherlite Trailers merge
with Universal Trailers.
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