Re: could I tow this boat with my truck??
I've worked with people like this. They are very good at finding obsticals and excuses, but really poor at problem solving and finding success. If we let the worry warts make all the decisions around here we'd be getting nowhere, fast.
Adequate trailer brakes will stop that thing on a dime. You guys worry too much, and I'm usually conservative on these issues. Towing capacities are designed for hard use, this isn't hard use. He can do it safely, the kids are probably safer with him towing it than with the average driver in his neighborhood.
And as a machinist I've worked with people like you that are good at justifying what YOU want to do with excuses. One of those guys I know has one less finger now because he did something obviously unsafe but heck he had gotten away with it many times before. Another is blind in one eye for the same reason.
Here is how I see your argument:
Its a short trip - an excuse
The trailer brakes will stop it so you don't need the right size truck - an excuse
Belittling other people's opinions like in the post above - an excuse
None of these excuses changes the FACT that it is illegal to tow a load above the rating of the truck. The last time I looked in my owners manual for my truck I didn't see anything that said exceeding the rating for "short" trips was allowed. Don't remember ever seeing that in the towing laws either.
As for your comments that I highlighted in blue above, this I assume applies to me as well since I disagree with you. Since you don't know bitterboater, or me at all you have absolutely no idea how successful, or how good at problem solving we are. I for one consider myself very successful having put myself through college after working for 10 years as a machinist, and currently earning well into 6 figures. I have also solved many many unique problems in my life that I'm not going to bore anyone with. Bitterboater may be the very successful and a great problem solver as well. I can't say because I've never meet the man, but you can't say either. Just because we choose to do things within the bounds of the law has absolutely no bearing on our successes or problem solving ability and saying it somehow does is ridiculous. Problems can be solved while staying within the law and success can be found within the law too.
The fact that you choose to do things willingly outside of the law, and have actually vehemently recommended it in this thread, well lets just say I have formed an opinion of that.
