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Towing a Trailer

Driving Safely With a Trailer Making Turns and Braking If youmust stopwhenfacinguphill,
The added weight, length, and Make turns more slowly and wider use the foot brake or parking brake.
height of a trailer will affect your than normal. The trailer tracks a Do not try to hold the vehicle in
vehicle’s handling and performance, smaller arc than your vehicle, and it placebypressing on theaccelerator,
so driving with a trailer requires canhit or runover somethingthe as this can cause the automatic
some special driving skills and vehicle misses. Allow more time and transmission to overheat.
techniques. distance for braking. Do not brake or
turn suddenly as this could cause the When driving down hills, reduce
Foryoursafetyand thesafetyof trailer to jackknife or turn over. your speed, and shift down to second
others,taketimeto practicedriving gear. Do not ‘‘ride’’ the brakes, and
maneuvers before heading for the Driving on Hills remember, it will take longer to slow
open road, and follow the guidelines When climbing hills, closely watch downandstopwhentowinga trailer.
below. your temperature gauge. If it nears
the red (hot) mark, turn the air
Towing Speeds and Gears conditioning off, reduce speed and, if
Drive slower than normal in all necessary, pull to the side of the
driving situations, and obey posted road to let the engine cool.
speed limits for vehicles with trailers.
If you have an automatic If the automatic transmission shifts
transmission, use D position when frequently while going up a hill, shift
towing a trailer on level roads. D is to D . 3
3
the proper shift lever position to use
when towing a trailer in hilly terrain.
(See ‘‘Driving on Hills ’’ in the next
column for additional gear
information.)

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