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Trailering 101 - Ram Truck Tips
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Mar 26, 2025
In today's Ram Truck Tip, Angelo Viola gives the low down on trailering your boat and a few tips for success! In this short series Angelo Viola and Pete Bowman give you some tips and tricks to get the most out of your RAM Truck.
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hey towing a boat isn't exactly rocket
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science after all wherever this goes
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that's got to follow but unfortunately
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there's more to towing a boat than that
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inevitably you've got to turn stop and
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god help us all
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back that baby up and for that my
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friends you require a bit of science
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one of the first things you need to
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always be aware of while towing is the
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length of your payload in other words
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how much more metal am i pulling down
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the road
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this doesn't really matter when
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traveling in a straight line
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but man it sure does when you're
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negotiating a turn backing up your rig
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or applying your brakes
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a really cool feature in our ram limited
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is the 360 surround view camera system
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now among a multitude of other great
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benefits this package has something
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called automatic trailer detection
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you want to talk about science well once
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you hook up to whatever it is that
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you're towing this baby automatically
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calculates the length of your rig and
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displays it in your instrument cluster
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now how crazy is that
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so let's start with turns now remember
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earlier i said wherever that goes this
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has to follow
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not anymore when you're making turns the
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trailer is no longer tracking directly
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behind you
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as your truck turns your trailer will
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actually start shortening the distance
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that travels through the curve it's kind
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of like the square peg in a round hole
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theory it's a straight solid object and
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therefore it won't bend it'll want to
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travel straight through the curve
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consequently it takes a shortcut and
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that'll result in all kinds of problems
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if you don't compensate for it
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all you got to do is start making wider
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turns than normal the bigger and longer
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the trailer the wider your turns need to
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be
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just think in terms of straightening out
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the arc instead of a normal slow
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sweeping turn
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go straight longer before starting to
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turn your wheel
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just watch a tractor trailer driver make
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intersection turns they go as wide as
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possible to keep the trailer wheels off
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of the curb or out of the oncoming lanes
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it's easy once you get your head around
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the science
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next is braking
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now once again we defer to science
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if you slam your brakes on while towing
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a trailer stuff happens
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especially if your trailer doesn't come
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equipped with either surge or electric
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brakes
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worst case scenario you could see your
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boat and trailer out the side window
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going backwards
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this is called jackknifing and as a
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result of the trailer actually going
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faster than the tow vehicle
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this is not a pretty scene
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so the solution it's really quite simple
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try to never slam your brakes on always
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ease them on
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staying calm through sudden changes and
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driving conditions is your best friend
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the last thing you want to do while
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towing a big rig is panic
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nothing good ever comes of it
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to get more info on braking check out a
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great piece on using your vehicle's
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transmission to help you brake and now
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the final little piece of science that
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you should get familiar with is the toe
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hull feature of your ram truck now it
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does all the calculations for you and
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makes the truck do all the important
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stuff all the while producing less wear
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and tear on your ramps breaks
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now the only little bit of science that
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you've got to deal with is figuring out
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why those suspended fish weren't biting
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today
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