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From: Gary Pipkin, President, Rocky Mountain Reining
Horse Association
6505 South Russelville Road
Franktown, CO 80116
303-688-5921
To: President, Advanced Air Hitch,
Inc.
Gary Pipkin, President of the Rocky Mountain Reining Horse Association (a Colorado
based NHRA affiliate), and Vice President of Rocky Mountain Quarter Horse
Association, AQHA’s official state affiliate for Colorado, recently added
an Air Ride Hitch to the gooseneck coupler of his 40’ Sundowner trailer.
Pipkin has been hauling reining horses for several years with a one-ton
dually pickup. He has experienced roads so rough that clothes would bounce
off the clothes rod in the living quarters and other items on the bed or
sofa would bounce off. Concerned that this roughness reverberated all the
way back to the horses, Pipkin sought a solution.
In the interim period of time, he upgraded his tow vehicle to a new
International 4700 LoProfile with a custom hauling bed. This newer vehicle
was rated for heavier loads and thus he felt a firmer and somewhat rougher
ride than in the one ton pickup. His search for anything to soften the ride
intensified. That’s when Sundowner faxed him information about a new air
ride hitch being marketed by Advanced Air Hitch, Inc. of Beech Island, SC.
Pipkin immediately contacted the company and ordered a gooseneck hitch on a
trial basis to see whether or not it would solve the rough ride being
transferred to the nose of the Sundowner trailer. Immediately upon
installing the hitch, Pipkin had his wife ride on the bed of the truck and
watch the motion of the hitch as he drove up and down the unpaved roads
next to his ranch. Seeing was believing! Next he tested the softer ride on
an 1800-mile round trip to Arizona. Road conditions felt in the truck were
totally absorbed by the gooseneck air ride hitch and items previously askew
in the living quarters remained unaffected during his entire trip.
"It’s pretty obvious to me that if the front of the trailer is
experiencing less roughness, then the horses in the rear of the trailer
will benefit proportionately as well," commented Pipkin.
Pipkin became such a believer in this new technology available to the
trailer towing market that he immediately contacted the manufacturer to
become a distributor for the hitch in the Rocky Mountain region of the
country.
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