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2. TxDOT initiative promotes safety tips to prevent trailer ...

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   To help avoid crashes like these, TxDOT is sharing these safety tips: Choosing the correct equipment: — Check your vehicle's tow rating in the owner's manual to confirm it can tow the trailer's ...

3. Towing - Wikipedia

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   Large ballast tractor pulling a heavy load (a transformer) on a hydraulic modular trailer using a drawbar. A British Airways Concorde being towed in New York City. Towing is coupling two or more objects together so that they may be pulled by a designated power source or sources. The towing source may be a motorized land vehicle, vessel, animal ...

4. Fifth-wheel coupling - Wikipedia

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   The fifth-wheel coupling provides the link between a semi-trailer and the towing truck, tractor unit, leading trailer or dolly. The coupling consists of a kingpin, a 2-or- -inch-diameter (50.8 or 88.9 mm) vertical steel pin protruding from the bottom of the front of the semi-trailer, and a horseshoe-shaped coupling device called a fifth wheel ...

5. Tow hitch - Wikipedia

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   A tow ball mounted on the rear of a vehicle. A screw-on tow hook mounted at the front of a vehicle. A tow hitch (or tow bar or trailer hitch in North America [1]) is a device attached to the chassis of a vehicle for towing, or a towbar to an aircraft nose gear. It can take the form of a tow ball to allow swiveling and articulation of a trailer ...

6. Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards - Wikipedia

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   The Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) are U.S. federal vehicle regulations specifying design, construction, performance, and durability requirements for motor vehicles and regulated automobile safety -related components, systems, and design features. They are the U.S. counterpart to the UN Regulations developed by the World Forum ...

7. Mobile Home Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974

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   Signed into law by President Gerald R. Ford on August 22, 1974. Mobile Home Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 or National Mobile Home Construction and Safety Standards Act is a United States federal law establishing design and development safety standards for manufactured housing or prefabricated homes.