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TRAILER SAFETY CHAINS
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I have a gooseneckSo now that you’re in the thread, do you cross your chains or not?
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Yep.
In the last 15(?) years or so more states were requiring them. I had to add anchor points on the 97 F-350 dually that I bought many years ago. My 23 Denali came with anchor points.
If I may add a story, a scary one.
A good friend of mine borrowed another good friends 20 foot tandem trailer. He was dropping it off at my house and I'm helping unhook it. I shit you not the hitch was upside down. The coupler was resting on the shank and nut. To top it off the chains were not hooked up. I'm like "Willy, WTF? He said the ball wouldn't fit so he turned it upside down and the chains wouldn't reach. He pulled that trailer from Marianna to Navarre FL like that. I asked him how he got it to Marianna. He said it fit then. So many questions but thankfully it made it. Destroyed the lock on the coupler, had to cut it off and weld a new one on. Nobody let Willy borrow a trailer again.