flat tow a ctd?

[VicR]

Anyone ever flat tow a CTD? I am going to help my parents move from Montana and would like to drive both trucks back, but I will only have one driver going up.



Thanks,



-Vic

 

[NVR FNSH]

Depends on what your towing it with. With another CTD? No way - no brakes and equal weights make for some not so fun moments.



Brian

 

[SEmerson]

I have tow bars on both of my 3500. I have towed both on long hauls. It is the most misserable and unsafe drive you will ever have. Turns are terrifying. The back one will push the front one into a corner bad. I only use the tow bars if I have to move a dead truck and have no other option. My longest tow was from southern cal to DTT in BC. It was 1200 miles one way.



This is also on dry pavement. Snow or even wet road would be imposible.

 

[BBarry]

I falt towed my friends M715 once and will never do it again. Fullsize trucks are too heavy thay shove you all over the place.

 

[BStoecker]

Any chance of throwing one on a car trailer and towing it that way? Then you can use the trailer to carry more stuff for the move behind one of the trucks. Just a thought.

 

[ndurbin]

On a trailer would be a much better idea. And I wouldn't try pulling a CTD with anything other than another full size diesel pick-up. I had to have mine pulled by a 1/2 ton ford when the transmission went out, just not enough truck for the job and when I backed off the trailer (in 4lo and just barely crawling) it lifted the back wheels of the ford 3-4" up off the ground until I got off the ramps.



Nathan

 

[dtygart]

Go to your local rental yard and get a HD trailer with brakes and loading ramps. (Not U-Haul). I brought my son's 1 ton Dodge 4WD gasser from NE OR to Nor CA with my 96 CTD. At 80 mph on the interstate it was like I didn't have anything back there. Don't get a trailer with the axles in the center--it won't be fun to pull, get the axles about two-thirds of the way back or more. You can probably only find a rental that has to go back, but you are going back to NV anyway?

David