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15th January 2020, 09:35 AM #16
OK
so what you "could" do is
1. put a single axle, single tire under the front of the boat trailer -- I'm not 100% sure if the "truck" regulations allow a single tire dolly but for the heck of it let's assume they do. So your combination now has 3 points of articulation -- towing vehicle to caravan, caravan to dolly, dolly to boat trailer. Definitely a multi-combination, but I'm not sure it would be "road legal".
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2. put a second single tire axle at the rear of the caravan -- but there's a limit on how far apart the two caravan axles are allowed to be. Which would bring the combination back to two points of articulation.
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3. the simplest approach would be to move the caravan's single axle to the rear of the van and put a single axle single tire dolly under the front of the van. Still three points of articulation but the van is now a "dog" trailer, while the boat trailer remains a "pig". This would require that the van's chassis be rebuilt, but the chassis would need to be rebuilt anyways to allow the boat trailer to be towed.regards from Alberta, Canada
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15th January 2020, 10:28 AM #17
As a hypothetical, there are plenty of things that "could be done" and probably are or have been done for use on private property , like the gent featured on Landline a while back that built a logging skidder from two tractors . I guess it would be a struggle to get it through a machinery inspection or to meet current WH&S regs but it suits his particular needs and he is the only one that may be injured in the event of an incident.
The towing regs are formulated to protect all road users from cowboys and cowboy rigs. When a towed trailer starts to wag the tail it becomes carnage in many cases, because many drivers simply do not have the knowledge or skills to recover from the incident. Mostly that is how they got into trouble, insufficient knowledge about setting up & towing a trailer safely. Towing two pig trailers behind a passenger vehicle / light truck / medium truck / rigid is simply asking for trouble, more like guaranteeing trouble.
That is why Transport authorities state "You may tow only 1 trailer (caravan, box or boat) at a time." so two pig trailers are out of the equation on the public road network.
I guess there is nothing to stop someone building a mini multi combination rig, paying the exhorbitant "combination" registration fees, maintaining a drivers log book, and attaining the appropriate licenses. Now that is something I would like to see - a well engineered and built rig.Mobyturns
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