Never seen this toad setup before

[jetart]

20,000 lb. trailer weight, 1500 lb. hitch weight, 8" from the face of the receiver.

The standard for Prevost was 10,000 lb. and 1000 lb tongue weight, but more recently I believe the heavier cradle has been used, although you can get the heavier one retrofitted.

Jon,  Thanks for the clarification.

[Zephod]

This was hanging off the back of my schoolbus! The welding was bloody awful to put it mildly. It had a little gate for an ATV to be loaded.

Underneath, there was a single supporting beam, tack welded to the back bumper on one side only. That was tack welded to the underside of the chassis. There rest was welded to the back bumper and to the rub rails. There were no lights nor reflectors.

Needless to say, that shelf met my angle grinder...

[Aaron]

Here in Morro Bay about 20 years ago there was a gent building coaches form Greyhounds, he converted a couple Scenic Cruisers and raised the floor a little bit and fitted the early Honda cars in the baggage compartment,he did pretty nice work if I remember correctly but this was 30 years ago. I wonder if any of those coaches are still around.

[baker4106]

I believe he use to live near Olivet, Michigan where I live.   Met him first time at Arcadia Rally in 2004.   I will look for him when we get there this year.

[Jim Eh.]

There was a thread about the legality of doing this some time ago, and the conclusion was that it was illegal to do with a Smart car in the US because they're longer than the maximum permissible width, and although there are shorter car models out there (primarily various French makes), none of those models can be bought in the States.

I wonder if they are getting away with it due to the car being considered the "load" and not part of the vehicle?

[Jon]

RJ,

Prevost is very comfortable with the towing weight as long as the tongue weight limits are never exceeded. The coaches do very well pulling the loads in a straight line due to the nature of the chassis structure. But carrying the weight which is a vertical load is a real concern because when the coach hits those types of bumps that bottom out our driver seats that load on the cradle increases dramatically.

I am sure we all have hit the type of bump that bottoms out the driver seat or the front air bags so it is not hard to imagine how that increases the stresses on the engine cradle that was never designed as a load bearing structure beyond supporting the engine.