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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. 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 ...

4. 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 ...

5. Snow chains - Wikipedia

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   Automatic chains were invented in 1941 in the United States [1] and Sweden in 1977 [citation needed]. Snow chains, or tire chains, are devices fitted to the tires of vehicles to provide increased traction when driving through snow and ice. Snow chains attach to the drive wheels of a vehicle or special systems deploy chains which swing under the ...

6. 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 ...

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