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Originally Posted by Andrew Selking
Sway control will not help in ice or snow or heavy rain. Slowing down helps but even at that I have seen big rigs come around going 10 to 15 on ice or snow. Best place to be is at home parked. Airsteams do not like ice, snow, or rain.
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I got caught east of Ruidoso New Mexico about 20 years ago with a 79 31' Excella 500 in freezing precipitation. I dialed in the trailer brakes and slowed down to about 35 or so. It wiggled about three times but when I manually applied trailer brakes it would quickly straighten out. It then began to snow and snow hard when we got off the mountain. Road conditions were not bad until we got to Texas where the roads had not been plowed. I kept pussing on toward civilization and was driving in 8" of snow before long. The road was only one lane so someone had to pull into snow when meeting. The Airstream never wiggled at all in the snow. I was impressed with its tracking in the snow.