Best trailer hitch for "protection"

[RLXXI]

Focusing all of the force into your trailer hitch is a GREAT way to bend your frame, requiring frame straightening or totalling your vehicle. The bumper is there to spread the force out.

If you get hit hard enough to bend that class V hitch, having the shank in it won't make any difference, in my personal case, that shank has been the savior of a couple different vehicles I've owned over the years, once at a red light and another in a drive thru.

Both would have caused significant damage (cosmetic mostly) had it not been inserted in the receiver. In both cases I came away with no damage and the offenders had enough damage to make them pay attention to what they're doing next time to prevent it happening again. I call it an "Old schooler" or as the kids these days like to say, "FAFO" get too close to me (FA), wind up hitting me, (FO).

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[RLXXI]

As would almost any rear end collision! But there is no reason to help cause something that may be preventable. Reality is, the hitch is meant to “cause” more damage to the person at fault and won’t stop any damage to the vehicle struck.

good to see you Ron.

Reality is it's there to attach my trailer when needed or any other trailer I might come across in my travels needing a pull.

Howdy Ed ltns.

 

[powerboatr]

I ise a weather tech bump step
Its string for my svelte old body
But gives a little

 

[Snakebitten]

I have been towing on most weekends for the past few months. So that big lump of WDH has been continuously hanging off the back of the truck.

I don't daily it, to be honest, but man I wouldn't want to kiss that thing with my RAV4 or CRV.

 

[Ricksc]

It’s all good until you slam your shin on it. Then you won’t be happy

 

[Bunker]

My ProPride shank would do a number on anything up to Sherman tank.

And unspeakable things to a shin.

 

[EFG]

I received a ticket in upstate NY a few years back for driving around with a hitch in my receiver of my F350!!

I thought this was the craziest ticket I ever got but the state trooper who issued it to me on the NY Thruway was pretty adamant they don't like people doing this because of people walking into them in parking lots.

 

[Snakebitten]

I guess it's true then that there ARE laws against it?

I don't think it's enforced in Texas, if it is in fact illegal. And there's so many trucks here that statistically if someone bumps into your truck, they are likely in one themselves.

 

[Buyer2021]

I don't think it's enforced in Texas, if it is in fact illegal.

It's not illegal in TX to leave a hitch in the receiver (no state law prohibiting).

Casual survey of vehicles in the packed parking lot of the local HEB grocery store indicates ~50% scofflaws if it were (100% on my rural street)!

Watch-out for yer shins in Texas parking lots

 

[RLXXI]

I received a ticket in upstate NY a few years back for driving around with a hitch in my receiver of my F350!!

I thought this was the craziest ticket I ever got but the state trooper who issued it to me on the NY Thruway was pretty adamant they don't like people doing this because of people walking into them in parking lots.

So they are basically saying a fine against you because stupid people not watching where they're walking, got it.

 

[RLXXI]

It's not illegal in TX to leave a hitch in the receiver (no state law prohibiting).

Casual survey of vehicles in the packed parking lot of the local HEB grocery store indicates ~50% scofflaws if it were (100% on my rural street)!

Watch-out for yer shins in Texas parking lots

Most likely the same here in Louisiana. We know to watch out for them because we've ALL smacked our shin on them at some point in time. Too many boat owners down here for any stupid law like N.Y. has. Figures a retard law from a blue state.

 

[RLXXI]

It’s all good until you slam your shin on it. Then you won’t be happy

Been there, done that, now I actually watch where I'm walking, especially around pickup trucks. They have to create laws for stupid people that can't walk and apparently chew gum at the same time.

 

[EFG]

You know I haven't thought about this ticket in years until it was mentioned here, so I googled it. Google says there is no specific law in NY BUT there are numerous questions about if this is legal or not, specifically in NY State. So I am guessing that plenty of people like me got tickets for it. They do HOWEVER have a unsafe equipment provision. I don't have the original ticket any longer to see what statute it was justified under but that might be what that trooper wrote me up under. It certainly didn't obstruct the plate (apparently a common reason for this violation) and I specifically remember him talking about the parking lot issue as to why he was writing me.

 

[RLXXI]

You know I haven't thought about this ticket in years until it was mentioned here, so I googled it. Google says there is no specific law in NY BUT there are numerous questions about if this is legal or not, specifically in NY State. So I am guessing that plenty of people like me got tickets for it. They do HOWEVER have a unsafe equipment provision. I don't have the original ticket any longer to see what statute it was justified under but that might be what that trooper wrote me up under. It certainly didn't obstruct the plate (apparently a common reason for this violation) and I specifically remember him talking about the parking lot issue as to why he was writing me.

I can guarantee that law was created the minute one of those idiot lawmakers smacked his/her shin on one. The reason they put instructions on shampoo bottles kind of person.

 

[Curly]

Yep seems to me that if you add the hitch (something to do more damage) permanently, you eliminate space that some one could or may have been able to stop and not cause damage. JMO

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