z.l.davis

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Changing duty stations, going from Nola to Cali. Anyone have experience towing a car on the dolly type set up? By that I mean the Uhaul one you can pull two wheels of a car onto. I'd like to tow the wife's edge and while I'm always loading my bed up, I don't tow ever.
You tell me..is an edge on a dolly doable
Trailer instead?
Anything special I need to think about?
Thanks in advance.

Raven2210

Your best bet is to call uhaul. They will tell you what they allow for a vehicle the size of an edge. I suspect it will have to be trailered. Especially if it's All Wheel drive.

ModelAMike

Z.l. I towed an antique car for 1,000 miles using a Uhaul dolly with my former 1997 F250 light duty. No problems just watch your speed. Uhaul showed a pretty Dolly when I made the reservation but gave me piece of junk when I picked it up. In traffic I found many other drivers scared to death of the Dolly. My pace was 5 mph below the speed limit. Up and back was 2000 miles without incident.

z.l.davis

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We're going to be going nice and slow with the kiddos
. It is AWD so you may be right about the trailer although I hope you're not haha. Thanks fellas.

RLXXI

Your going to have to flat tow on a trailer if it's all wheel drive as mentioned and it's likely U-Haul is going to shoot you down because you will be over the tow rating of your truck, their car haulers are built extremely heavy duty and weigh accordingly, I helped move my parents back from Abilene Tx. a few years ago and they made us rent one of their large moving trucks to tow their full size CrownVic back to NOLA.

Good luck, and if they give you a choice of electric or surge brakes on the car hauler, DO NOT select surge brakes, those things are huge PITA to tow and nearly impossible to back up with.

Boostking

If its AWD you wont really have much choice but to put it on a trailer. I mean you could disconnect the half-shafts but thats just more work than its worth.

On top of that, a good flat trailer should have its own brakes, which your truck will operate and should help you with braking. I dont know much about the dolly style, so I dont know if they have their own brakes.

z.l.davis

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Ok guess I'll be checking on the flat trailer then. Appreciate it folks.

BertoPGH

Boost king is right about it having to go onto the full trailer. I work for u haul part time for some extra dough. The car will easily fit onto the auto transport and will be very close to the tow weight or your truck. If you call the store they can input all the info In their computer and find an exact tow capacity. Overall the trailers are built awesome and if you take your time they make towing very easy. Any other question shoot em my way, Id be glad to help.

itore87

I agree, would defiantly go with the flat trailer. We towed my sons Ford Ranger from Missouri to Camp Pendleton, with one of those tow dolly's. No they don't have brakes. Ours blew a tire in Albuquerque, NM. We had to go to three different U-Haul stores, to find someone who would change the tire. It is nearly impossible to back up with a tow dolly. If I ever tow a car that far again, I will use a trailer. I would inspect the trailer, to assure its worthy of safe travel and defiantly check the tires for dry rot Best wishes, at your next duty station. Thank you, for your service.

z.l.davis

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Awesome. Great info guys.