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I do tighten them pretty strongly, but the foot was only for ease of use on this particular trailer and strap setup. When you do it a thousand times, your arms get tired from the ratcheting all day. That being said, most haulers criminally under-tighten these. You can’t really overtighten a tire to failure, but you can for sure have it looser. It’s all fine until you get into any extreme situations, and they’ll slip out sideways.

Towing capacity isn’t relevant in commercial trucks. It can tow anything as long as you don’t violate the axle weight limits. Drive axle needs to be under 20k lbs, and trailer axles need to be under trailer axle limits depending on their configuration.

Hello! I do PNW to SoCal and back, so technically OTR, but regional.

10’. Going shorter on this setup is not a good idea because you’ll scrape bumpers.

I run in Cali and the PNW. No, the 5500 would be overweight on every rating with 6 cars. People do it, but it’s not good nor legal.

Too quiet imo

Too quiet, boomy. It is honestly best to go with a full catback for this car. I’ve switched to Invidia and couldn’t be happier.

@@Soliditude you have any more videos of the f

@@SmokieTRWI’ll make some eventually.

These trailers are completely worth the higher price, believe me. The Mini-5 is the most difficult trailer to load that there is, IMO.

They are better in every way.

Yes, it’s possible, and people do it in Cali all the time, but you will be running overweight on all the fully limits. Only a Ram 5500 can run this legally. In Cali, dullys are exempt from weigh stations, but everywhere else you could potentially get busted. You will be exceeding the drive axle weight and the gross weight.

Looking to get a ram 5500 and Kauffman mini 5 soon... is it still good money to be made in the industry with gas prices these days?

@@jnatty75 I’m not an authority here I’m new. I think it’s possible to make money with a mini 5 type car hauler for minimum. Anything less, no. I’m renting a 3 car Kaufman wedge. On average cars pay $0.50-$0.90 / mile. Vans/trucks little more. You can make money no matter what with a mini 5. And you can run it with a cheaper Ram 3500. I financed the Ram 3500 and renting a Kaufman 3 car but I want out of this, car hauling or driving not for me. My truck has 17k miles on it, 2022 dually with aisin transmission. It’s a basic tradesman practically new. I really want out of this. Not because of rates but I want a different career now. If you are interested, I can sell you my truck or if possible, you can take over payments with 5k payment to cover my down payment. Maybe if I saw the potential of making more money with mini 5, I would be more interested but I’m not interested in driving anymore - found out that I don’t like it after getting cdl A and all that..

@@jnatty75 for better diesel prices, you get a 90 gallon auxiliary fuel tank, cost $800-$1000 or even cheaper in fb marketplace. You fill in south states and this helps quite a bit. Calif/western states has higher prices but rates are also better.

@semperfidelis1776 yeah driving is tougher than people think it is... being away from home is the downside of it. And you aren't getting paid good money like back in the days... what career field are you looking to get into... been driving class A for 19 years now locally

Sorry, I didn’t see your comment. I have a Cummins L9 in it with Allison. It handles it great. It’s not stressed.

So the front of the car can be lifted up over the next car for height and weight, usually the front of the car is heavier.

It’s designed for that.

The ramps have J-hooks that go into small ridges in the trailer. It’s built like that from factory.

Big Tex doesn’t even make something like this. At least not when I bought.

@@Soliditude As often as you can, keep an eye on every weld on your Kaufman trailer. Chinese welds don't last very long. The last thing that you need is for your trailer to fall apart.

It is a very difficult and by far hardest to work with design. But hey it’s only 23k price. It’s only for people who can’t afford otherwise in the beginning.

It’s the worst because it’s the cheapest. Only buy this if you can’t afford a bigger setup right off the bat.

What’s so bad about it

one of the worst trailer in the industry...

@Roque B What kind of problems if you don’t mind me asking

@Roque B what kind of problems you had?

Brakes and axle components start breaking around 150k miles.