Re: Trailer ratings

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>(Wonder if we could stimulate Consumer Reports (or similar org.) to do a
>detailed study as they now do on trucks? Sure took them long enough to
>start on pickups! Have to say I'm a big fan of CR...wish we had one for =
the
>specialty items as well as the general use items. Who knows? Maybe =
they or
>someone would consider it, in light of the numbers of HTs out there...
>Or maybe such a study has been published. Anyone know?)

I'd like to inject a dissent here: please, PLEASE don't draw the =
attention of
Consumer Reports to horse trailers! CR is heavily biased toward =
government
intervention and regulation, and biased toward "safety" at the expense of
performance and usefulness. Don't forget how they worked so hard (to the=
point
of fraud) to prove a certain sport-utility vehicle "unsafe," and helped =
kill the
vehicle.

Have you ever seen the cartoon about the "OSHA Cowboy?" That's what a =
horse
trailer would look like after CR got through with it. You'd need a =
Freightliner
to pull anything bigger than a two-horse w/o tackroom.

CR is fine for testing toasters and washing machines, but they don't know=
beans
about horses and trailers -- which wouldn't stop them from forcing design
changes if they got on our case. I guarantee you we wouldn't like the =
results.

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Joe Long
jlong@mti.net
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