<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div><div>On Jan 3, 2013, at 2:03 PM, John Jaranson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>On Jan 3, 2013, at 1:42 PM, Mike Fisher wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">The tow car does ALL the braking on every trailer. The electric trailer<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">brake only works if the trailer comes unhitched from the tow car. A 2300<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">lb car on a tow bar would be nothing for your Mercedes at 55-65 mph. Quit<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Researching everything to death and believing everything you read!<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote>This is simply NOT true. Although there are small trailers with emergency only tethered electric brakes, any reasonably large trailer like a two axle U-Haul car hauler will have fully proportional electric brakes. </div></blockquote><br></div><div>Just checked U-Haul's site and I misspoke a little here. There two-axle trailer still have just automatic hydraulic surge braking....which still adds to the braking power of the combine unit so the towing vehicle is not trying to do it all.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">Later,<br>John Jaranson<br><a href="http://www.carartbyjohn.com">www.carartbyjohn.com</a><br><br></span></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><br></body></html>