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Question Towing w/o a trailer

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Get an NSA tow bar with the integrated brake setup and save yourself money and also time when hooking up by eliminating the cost of a Brake Buddy or similar and also the time to install and remove every time. I’ve been using the NSA Hercules bar since they introduced it. Very happy with it
 
Get an NSA tow bar with the integrated brake setup and save yourself money and also time when hooking up by eliminating the cost of a Brake Buddy or similar and also the time to install and remove every time. I’ve been using the NSA Hercules bar since they introduced it. Very happy with it
You caused me to look it up. Not a bad alternative.
 
Not to mention illegal.
Then the dolly would come with them.

Funny, when I had my dog and he was in the yard with me invariably someone would walk by and yell at me that my dog needed to be leashed in his/my yard, "there's a law on that they'd yell". A lot more lawyers in the world than we know, Oh, yeah, my son Is A very successful lawyer who has won national landmark bankruptcy case regarding student loans forgiveness.

Every stop, fuel, bathroom, food, etc. I check the straps. Rarely, actually very rare, do I need to snug up the straps, they stay tight. Perhaps being a swivel deck dolly helps with that. Every few years, depending on wear, I'll buy new straps on eBay, about $34 the last pair I've bought. To date, with the two Master Tow dollies I've had, I've logged in over 85K miles, Coast to Coast, Vermont to Key West.

Now, I never said tow dolly towing was the best way to tow. My initial post was in response to a lot of incorrect information on towing with a dolly. If I was starting a motorhome/RV lifestyle today, and the budget allowed, I. would definitely go the 4 down route. But, I got into the lifestyle on a fly, bought the first used rig I looked at, Tiffin Allegro, and camped weekend at local state parks. Then I bought a great motorcycle rack to carry my vintage 1977 Kawasaki 1000LTD on the back. I bought my first Master Tow Dolly a couple of years later for $950, two months old and never used to drag my wife's RAV4 on.

I didn't want to go through the process of changing cars, or getting an expensive transmission pump when the dolly and car worked for under $1K.

Now, this should make some happy. The downside of dolly towing is if I'm parked at a Walmart or Harvest type setting for an overnight and the ground is uneven, such is the case as I write this at a Walmart in SC, I would have to take the car off of the dolly to use the leveling jacks, which on occasion I have, because the dolly neck would bend with the weight of the car on it.
 

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