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Location: East Haddam Connecticut | My family is with another truck and trailer 4 hours away. The 6 horse trailer has no brakes. The Drawtite brake controller is displaying OL. Its 9:28PM EST and they are stuck. |
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Location: South Central OK | Tell them to call 1411 or dial 0 for an operator. They should be a le to find help by calling a local wrecker that is equiped to hadle that load under those conditions. They might also find help at a truck stop. Some truck stops have mechanics 24/7 that should be able to offer some help. Let us know how things turn out. |
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Location: East Haddam Connecticut | thanks |
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Location: East Haddam Connecticut | Still driving at slow speed looking for a truck stop. Found the manual on the web, OL means shorted or overloaded brakes. Troubleshoot using brake mfg instructions. Could a fuse be blown in the trailer or truck? The controller is a Drawtite activator 2. |
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Location: North Carolina | Have them disconnect the trailer's electrical plug from the truck. If the Drawtite still displays "OL" the problem is in the blue wire circuit of the brake controller / truck. If the "OL" is displayed only when the trailer is plugged into the truck, the trailer brakes are shorted somewhere. Check the trailer connector first. Then look for a brake wire touching the trailer frame somewhere. Get someone to watch the display and someone else wiggle / move every wire they can see under the trailer. |
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Location: East Haddam Connecticut | Looking for somewhere to pull over to disconnect and find out where the problem is. Thanks for the info hosspuller. |
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| We have the US Rider Equestrian Motor Plan. They would have been able to fix you or tow you. AAA will not touch a horse trailer or tow. Some thing you might want to check into. Good Luck |
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Location: Ontario - east of TO | Originally written by Butch on 2005-06-26 11:59 PM
We have the US Rider Equestrian Motor Plan. They would have been able to fix you or tow you. AAA will not touch a horse trailer or tow. Some thing you might want to check into. Good Luck Not sure if AAA is teh same as CAA - but here if you buy the RV CAA package, they will haul your truck and trailer. |
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| CAA is Canada, AAA is US. Both the same, and if you call, make sure you say horse or livestock trailer. |
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| Originally written by MBRA518 on 2005-06-27 5:15 AM
Originally written by Butch on 2005-06-26 11:59 PM
We have the US Rider Equestrian Motor Plan. They would have been able to fix you or tow you. AAA will not touch a horse trailer or tow. Some thing you might want to check into. Good Luck Not sure if AAA is teh same as CAA - but here if you buy the RV CAA package, they will haul your truck and trailer.
I think in a a previous thread it was stated that triple A with RV is OK unless/until you say "1 ton", "Dual rear wheels", "Duallie", "Dually", "Dooley"... however your tongue was installed. I think this was the difference with USRider, though I still havn't checked.
I think AAA and CAA are essentially the same and have some sort of reciprocity (even if I can't spell it) for their members who cross the great frosty border.
Hopefully the brakes problem is solved/resolved ?
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Location: Ontario - east of TO | Originally written by Butch on 2005-06-27 1:23 PM
CAA is Canada, AAA is US. LOL - Well I knew that  But you never know if they offer the same services. It was actually the tow truck guy that hauled my truck in for a new fuel pump that told me about it - my truck is a 3/4 ton and he asked what we did with it - then he told us about the RV program. |
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Please help me fast no brakes on trailer
