Driving with empty trailers

Turn the mirrors out and drive

 

First fix your truck, second don't drive 100 miles on hr, common sense is the key high wind slow down, are you can go flying off a bridge like that driver in VA,

 

Roads that are rutted bad make it hard to keep a truck in the center of your lane.

 

I do pneumatic trailer. Empty half the time. Fully loaded the other half.
Most the time, empty is fun. I blast up hills, leaving the Supertruckers in my dust.
But wind? Handles wind much better than a van. But don’t be fooled. Empty it can blow. In a few extreme gusts, my downwind steer did dip strongly. Indicated the truck wanted to flip. So I am careful in the wind when empty. It ain’t something to ignore. Don’t ignore the wind when loaded either. That tank ain’t no low center of gravity.
EDIT: I agree with the slow down in the wind. Even a tanker. Be careful and safe. Remember that what gets you there the fastest is keeping the door shut. Period. There is a reason Wyoming shuts down I80 in high winds. Just sit on a bad day and be thankful it isn’t a disaster day.

 

Yeah as soon as i read this post my thoughts went to the load i got asked to pick up out of Joplin MO 24 pallets of empty cartons for Campbells soups going back to their factory in southern Utah we had 70 + mph winds all through KS and CO had the truck moving all over the place, in fact theres a spot just north of SLC UT where the Highway patrol will shut down all trucks on the I-15 due to high winds and the risk of them being blown over usually in late November early December.