Cecil,
I love the story of your rock load and dead van. Great story on the hauler that almost got a large enemia (never wrote that word before, so it may be mispelled).
Good point on the oxygen tank. I once saw an article that said a gas cylinder fell out of a pickup and knocked the head off, it went 200 feet up and then destroyed 2 parked cars after it came down. I see gas cylinders laying loose in a lot of the local farmer's pickups, tailgates open... I bet there is a law against that.
At the very least, heavily loaded trailers should have electric brakes.
The wheels of some of the old pull behind campers have electric brakes. If a person can find one cheap enough, he can take it to the junk yard to strip it down to the frame and then add a baffled tank or build a baffled tank using fiberglass which should be a lot lighter than steel. Some of the old campers are extremly ugly and cheap in this part of the world.
