When I was going more a few years back, I did use brake shoes up pretty fast:).
If Mack ever gets a hitch put on my truck, I'd like to have brakes on the trailer too. My trailers is pretty heavy even for a 2 horse slant. But I don't go fast unless I'm on the open highway.
Becky
It was $100 for the brake controller unit in ours, installation was in the $30 range. It's not a lot.
Here, they'll ticket you if they don't see the plug for it. A friend got pulled over with a big dual axle flatbed full of hay because it wasn't wired for brakes.
He thought it was just his odds that he'd get pulled over by a former farmer deputy who knew something about trailers. He's a former deputy who knows something about most deputies ;~D