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Originally Posted by travelin texans
Our son bought an enclosed trailer to move across the country. A couple days into the trip he sent some pictures. The first picture was of the 2 axles on the drivers side with what appeared to be no wheels with hubs on the ground, after looking closer the centers had broken out of both wheels, lug nuts & wheel centers still attached this caused severe sway. He said a couple times see saw the entire side of the trailer in both rearview mirrors it was swaying back/forth so badly. He said he had just watched videos of what to do in this type situation which was/is to use the manual trailer brake control to slow the trailer & bringing back in line which he did keeping it from flipping. The old gentleman following stopped to insure all were ok & shook my son's hand congratulating him for not losing it & said that he may have soiled his pants just watching. He said in few minutes another driver brought both tires still inflated on the wheels with no centers that he witnessed running across the interstate & fortunately did hit anyone. He unhooked the trailer & went the nearest town bought new wheels & had the tires mounted & back on his way back to that town to replace the other 2 wheels.
Fortunately the trailer manufacturer reimbursed him for the wheels & tire mounting & NO ONE injured!
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Sounds like your son had a good teacher...