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Do you want to pull both trailers with the same vehicle and hitch?

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Race Car Trailers and Improving your Ride

 

The Race Car trailer could be a 5th Wheel, Gooseneck, or receiver hitch type. The key issue with these trailers is the contents. The contents of the trailer are your car(s), motorcycles, equipment, and tools. In some cases it could also be your living quarters while you are traveling.

 

Just about every car that runs around a NASCAR or other smaller tracks arrived, along with  equipment and spare parts, in big vans and trailers. Getting the cargo safely  from track to track is a serious responsibility for the crew assigned to the  job. It's something they deal with week after week; they know their rigs and  they're in the habit of handling them.

 

Have you experienced any or all of the following:

  • Contents of the trailer getting damaged
  • Trailer frame damage
  • Tow vehicle bounces to much
  • Overloaded tongue weight
  • Forward and back motion around trailer kingpin and 5th wheel connection
  • Difficulty in connecting to an non-leveled trailer

With any hard connection hitch, the solid connection to the trailer causes your tow vehicle to feel every bump your trailer feels and your trailer feels every bump your vehicle feels. Have you arrived at your race track to find that your vehicle has suffered damage from all of the bouncing because of bad road conditions and you have to spend time putting your car back together.

 

All of the problems noted above are faced by the thousands of race car carriers around globe on a daily basis. Many of the problems above can be solved or drastically reduced if you place an Air Ride Hitch between you tow vehicle and your trailer. Our air ride hitch cushions the ride of the tow vehicle and the trailer.

 

Our System utilizes “HEAVY DUTY” air bags to absorb the shock, bounce and vibration that usually come with pulling a trailer with a hard connection tow hitch. This allows the trailer to rock back and forth on its natural axis as it was originally designed to do. Our hitches will fit your Fifth (5th) Wheel, Gooseneck, and Receiver hitches.

 

Because you are not bouncing all over the road

all 4 wheels stay in contact with the pavement,

on panic braking, nosedive is virtually eliminated.

 

The bottom line is the ride. Enjoy an 80% smoother ride and a 75% safer tow. Driver fatigue is greatly reduced and your family, friends, and animals will enjoy the smoother, less bouncy ride. The wear and tear on your truck and trailer will be greatly reduced.

 

You can add air springs to the truck and to the trailer, but this will not fix the problem if you still have a hard connection hitch. Fix the problem at the source, with our Air Ride Trailer Hitches you do not need air suspension on the trailer or truck unless you just want all the comfort you can get and don’t mind paying for it.

 

The Air Ride Hitch is a lasting investment as it can be easily transferred to a new vehicle and give you years and years of good service.

 

Please review the contents on our web page and then complete and submit the Information Form to find out more about our solutions.

May 2001 DRAG  RACING USA

HITCH a RIDE

RACERS

By John DiBartolomeo

Every once in awhile, a new product comes along that changes the way we’ve been doing things, and in effect, succeeds in reinventing the wheel. In the case of the Advanced Air Hitch, the reinvention of how we tow our trailers is a definite improvement in towing technology.

 

It’s a given that our cars take the most abuse when riding in the trailer. Dragster frames always crack, shock brackets break, and other assorted nuisances take place as we traverse our nation’s highway system. If you don’t believe us, ask horse owners. Horse people (those who carry horses in their trailers) know full well the effect and dangers that their animals are subjected to during a trip. But it’s still a risk, and probably many a horse has suffered severe damage by a bumpy trailer ride.

 

In the same way, many race cars have suffered damage by a trip to the track. Craig Kaplenski, president of Advanced Air Hitch, Inc., has been towing trailers all his life and has seen first hand the damage done to horses by being transported in a trailer. ”After an 8 to 10 hour ride, a horse is only 30 percent physically and mentally able when they arrive,” he said. “It takes roughly two days just for them to get back to normal.” This is the reason Kaplenski conducted research and came up with a better mousetrap, in the form of the Advanced Air Hitch.

 

The unit itself is available to fit standard tag-along hitches, as well as fifth wheel and gooseneck hitches.  The hitch consists of a Firestone Heavy Duty Air Bag assembly, the same kind used on most tractor-trailers, along with a framework that separates the trailer and the tow vehicle, to allow the trailer the ability to move on its natural axis. The framework attached to the trailer ball rides up-and-down within a channel, on state of the art composites. This up-and-down motion puts less stress on the trailer (and towing vehicle frame) and reduces the amount of wear and tear on the trailer’s contents. After hooking up, air must be adjusted in the air bag through a convenient fill valve on top of the unit, to adjust the ride height, in order to allow ample up-and-down travel.

 

“We’ve sold over 1000 units,” Kaplenski said, ”and we have units available to fit roughly 98 percent of all towing vehicles and trailers, from standard ball mounts to fifth-wheels and goosenecks. The standard receiver hitch is also totally interchangeable from ball mounts, to pintle hooks, to weight distribution bars.” According to the company, some of the reasons for owning one of these are safety, comfort, reduced wear and tear, and of course, the old standard-common sense. Owning an Advanced Air Hitch is almost a necessity.

 

To give you a better idea of just how much better the ride is, take this example from my own personal experience.  Before leaving on my maiden voyage with this unit, I had been working on my car. Inadvertently, I had left a small 6-32 screw on the workbench in my trailer. Not thinking about it, I shut the doors and left for a 1,000-mile trip to Florida. Bear in mind that for me, it meant traveling through the heart of the City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia.

 

Apparently though, all that brotherly love takes more precedence than road repair. Stopping somewhere in North Carolina to make sure the car was even in there, I was amazed to find that screw still sitting on the workbench; maybe not in the same place, but still there, nonetheless.

 

Now, with the ever-increasing use of motor homes as tow vehicles, we’ve created another source of problems. No big secret here, but they were never designed to haul what we haul with them. The constant pounding of a trailer to the coach section of the unit doesn’t exactly do wonders for the cabinetry, doors, floors, etc., not to mention what it does to the frame. The one thing I really noticed even on my short test trip around the block the first time was the lack of pulling or bouncing you feel, from the back of the motor home, through the seat. We’ve all felt it as we go over bumps, but doing away with that can’t do anything but  increase the value and longevity of our towing equipment. Couple this together and you might find that the folks at Advanced Air Hitch, Inc., are on to something.

 

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