StirCrazy
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4x4ord wrote:Anyone know what the penalty is for forgetting to unhook the second trailer at the Alberta border?
I don't know, but I'll see if I can find it. would imagine it is one of those 150 to 300 buck tickets though. There is also that they don't have to let you call a tow truck, they can call one themselves and those rates will be expensive as they may impound the boat, but unless you pee off the cop, he will probably let you call a tow truck or tow it yourself back the way you came.
the chances of getting away with it are small right now though, CVSE is all over the roads to and from Alberta right now as long as RCMP because of all the stupid driving behavior of commercial trucks and the higher-than-normal rate of accidents along the jasper and Banff routes.
Usually, I don't see a cop when I go to Alberta through the jasper way. the last couple of years they have been all over the place.
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4x4ord
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^^^I wonder if a person with a commercial drivers license and commercially licensed pick up towing an RV/motorcycle trailer would be more or less apt to be shown leniency?
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JRscooby
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Might. But OTOH, sometimes a judge will hold CDL holder to higher standard than normal person that just decides the law does not apply to them.
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mkirsch
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4x4ord wrote:What is the logic behind allowing 145,000 lb semi trucks on the road with two trailers yet forbidding people wanting to tow a 40ft 5th wheel with a boat on behind?
Because, the drivers running the 145,000lb rigs have TRAINING. They had to pass a TEST and get a LICENSE to drive an 80,000lb rig, and if I'm not mistaken they had to get a doubles endorsement which is more TRAINING and a TEST.
Anyone who barely squeaked by on their basic driving test at 16 years old with a compact car can write a check, jump into a pickup truck, and tow two trailers.
The CDL program isn't perfect but it is more than NOTHING.
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4x4ord
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^^^If that was the logic they could simply require a commercial (or special RV) licence for those wanting to double tow. Somewhere I read that hooking a second trailer on behind a 5th wheel in BC causes the combination to become unstable and therefore unsafe. In Alberta the combination might pull just fine but as soon as you cross that imaginary line into BC look out ... you're a menace on the road.
Edit: here is the link They say we need to use common sense but then they pass laws preventing common sense from being used.
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StirCrazy
Kamloops, BC, Canada
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4x4ord wrote:^^^I wonder if a person with a commercial drivers license and commercially licensed pick up towing an RV/motorcycle trailer would be more or less apt to be shown leniency?
no they will say you should have known better and nail you haha..
my niebour (well 8 houses down) got this to haul his bike.
I'm thinking about one also
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4x4ord
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I built one:
![[image]](https://i.imgur.com/UfYhFCwl.jpg)
My problem is that I want to bring my wife’s bike as well. Although the lift on the back of my fifth wheel works alright and is legal in BC, hauling the bikes in my enclosed trailer while towing it behind the fifth wheel is much safer … problem with the double towing is it’s too long to be legal in Alberta and too illegal to be legal in BC. So far I’ve never been hassled over the length in Alberta.
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