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Trailer loading question

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Subject: Trailer loading question
From: Steven Trovato <trovato@computer.net>
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 23:43:13 -0400
I have an auto transport trailer, but not a whole lot of experience using 
one.  If the trailer is perfectly level, or if the front is a bit higher, 
you winch the car onto the trailer, strap it down and you're set.  Where I 
live, however, it is a bit hilly.  If the front of the trailer is lower 
than the back, is there a technique for loading that prevents the car from 
rolling forward in an uncontrolled manner once it climbs the ramps?  I'm 
assuming I'm alone, and the vehicle is being winched onto the trailer, not 
driven.  The reverse problem exists when unloading.  How do you get the car 
off the trailer?  The winch can't "push".  Of course, you can use a pulley 
block at the back of the trailer, run the cable  underneath and pull it 
that way, but once the car hits the ramps it's going to roll down in a 
rather uncontrolled manner.  Are there any tricks to this besides avoiding 
the "pointing downhill" position?  

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