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I do tow a 2 horse TALL bumper pull trailer with a '96 4-runner and have 
for about 5 years now.  I do not do hills(well, mountains) and I don't 
do gravel hills.   The truck is only a 2 wheel drive and I can't 
remember the last time I trailered more then 1 horse.
It has worked OK for me but I did decide this year to start looking at 
trucks and after all these posts am heavily leaning towards the Chevy 
allison.  We have a friend up the road who has an OLD Chevy dually 
diesel 4x4 that he is willing to sell me real reasonable but I am not 
mechanically inclined so leaning towards the new Chevy.
If you plan on only towing one horse around town I'd say go for it.  I 
too slept in the 4-runner many times.  It isn't real comfortable, can 
hear a lot of noise and the windows 'sweat' like crazy whether its cold 
out or hot out.

A lot of people gave me flack about the wheel base and blowing the 
transmission and all that who-ha but I am a very conservative driver and 
my horses are never more then 900 lbs.  No problems breaking but I have 
also never gone over 70 while towing and usually stay around 50mph.  One 
of the times I did haul two horses was a pregnant mare and the mare I 
had ridden at E. South Fork.  I drove from there to SE Atlanta without a 
single problem and felt fine, never nervous.

I want to go more places and go to the mountains so that is why I want a 
4x4 Truck plus I want a LQ trailer some day.

Hope this helps.

Kathy R - SE

Ridecamp Guest wrote:

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> I trailered with a jeep cherokee a couple of times - a comparable size.  It was 
> okay, but like many have stated before - don't trust a vehicle this small to be 
> able to stop a horse trailer.  I could really feel the trailer pushing the car 
> when braking - not a good feeling.
> Laura
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