Choosing a smaller Truck to Tow

I would like to add a few more suggestions as I have just spoken to my wife (and listened!).

We also have a bit of a height differential, I am just under 6 ft tall and she is 5 ft tall. Some of the must haves when selecting our truck was an 8 way adjustable drivers seat (we wish ours had both front seats that were adjustable like this...but at a minimum the drivers seat to allow for the different body lengths (we actually have to have a 2x10 piece of wood on the passengers side floor so she can have her feet planted securely and comfortably).

The 2nd thing that allows my wife to drive our full size truck is the adjustable pedal option...whoever climbs in can set the seat and pedals etc and off we go.

We don't have tow mirrors on our F150, and the view aft works very well with the narrowness of the RP179. Tow mirrors would probably be better, but it's actually pretty good with the standard mirrors.

Originally posted by neptune1 thanks John!!! can I ask what year was your Colorado?

The majority of states mirror requirements are that they reflect a view of the roadway of at least 200 feet behind the vehicle.

Personally this "at least"
language doesn't make much sense to me. Any mirror with an outer edge that is set out as wide or wider than the trailer will do that, but could still leave a big (or infinite) blind spot.

Seems like it should say something like "reflect a view of the entire roadway beginning at most 200 feet behind the vehicle". That would require mirrors to be set wide enough so that the view from the two mirrors overlaps withing 200 feet so the blind spot is shorter than that.

But maybe I'm missing something.

That's what rear facing cameras are for!