). I have had around 50 years on the road with artics, semis, (here we go again), drawbars, wagons and drags all over Europe and Australia where my fun was with road trains, semi and 2 dogs (A triples).
So I know a bit about towing.
However, after retiring 10 years ago I found that I missed the life on the road and the camaraderie of mates in the routiers (truckstops, transport cafes). I did have other interests including dogs and soon we had 3 collected from various rescues and one day someone asked me to deliver a couple to new owners from refuges. And so it started. Now I travel all over France and sometimes beyond, delivering dogs. Sometimes I have to overnight with them, (I have a bed in my Citroen Berlingo) which is ok with one big one or a couple of smaller types, but collapsing the cages and making up the bed at night (and the reverse in the morning) in a howling gale with the poor dogs tethered in the snow was getting a bit much to handle.
So, at last the point of this, I bought a teardrop.
Just a bog standard double bed on wheels with only a rear entry, in other words, cheap, but it was all I needed. I don't need to cook or wash in it, I get all that in the routiers, just somewhere to sleep while the dogs slumber away happily in the car.I bought it in Leicester, England, on the 22nd of April this year and 17 days later in the foothills of the Pyrenees on my way to Barcelona, the A-frame snapped off where it was welded to the chassis.
. Luckily, I had just left a 110km/hr autoroute and was doing a stately 50 in a village and the electric cable held long enough to keep it behind me till we both stopped. At the moment I am fighting to stop the makers reclaiming it and detroying the evidence, also to get it repaired correctly locally. The story and pictures will be elsewhere here when I find the right place to put them but I just thought I should introduce myself first and give brief details of where I am coming from, as they say. 
