My neighbor's two year old Lincoln was struck by lightening while it was parked in his yard. It fried the main computer, and damaged several other electronic components. The rear quarter panel where it was struck, was slightly blistered.

Aircraft are commonly struck by lightening, which causes both physical and electrical damages.

As long as you are wholly contained inside the vehicle, there is little chance of personal harm. This would be true of the occupants of a trailer as well. Lightening is looking for a path of least resistance, a conductor. When it is contained in the shell around you, and not going through you, you have some protection. You are more safe inside the vehicle waiting for the storm to pass, than exiting and running for shelter elsewhere.

Gard

What does this have to do with anything, unless your pickup can fly with your trailer.  This website states that the probability is 1:700,000 for a human to get struck.  Now take into factor pickup trailer is bigger but your driving the odd's are so small its not funny. 

http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/medical.htm

It has to do with the fact that the shell around you, regardless of where you are, can be struck with an electrical charge and the occupants usually won't be injured.

HAVE A NICE DAY

Gard

Rubber tires aren't why you're safe in a car during lightning. You're safe in the car because of hosspullers answer. The vehicle acts like a Faraday cage and the electrical travels around the surface before going to ground. Tires will actually conduct electricity when a car is hit by lightning.  Here is some reading about thunderstorms and lightning. Lots of myths that have been believed like the tire one. Living all my life in an area where thunderstorms, lightning, and tornadoes are common, you tend to learn what is true and what is not.

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/cae/svrwx/ltg.htm

http://www.lightningsafety.com/nlsi_pls/vehicle_strike.html

http://www.fema.gov/hazard/thunderstorm/th_before.shtm

http://science.howstuffworks.com/lightning8.htm

If that isn't enough info for you Google "lightning safety". There will be about 1 million results if you put it in quotes to search it as a phrase.

This response, and especially the attitude that goes with it, made me laugh out loud... because Brew is WRONG about why you're safe in a car!    Guess he/she should have paid more attention in school.

I've known four people who have died as a result of lightening strikes; two were good friends. My wife and I were exiting a car that was struck by lightening. She was just getting out of the passenger seat with an open door, and was blown almost four feet from the car. I was holding the trunk lid open and had just reached inside to get a bag. I was rendered unconscious for almost ten minutes. We both took several weeks of recovery time for basic abilities and far longer to resume normal activities.

This website states that the probability is 1:700,000 for a human to get struck.   odd's are so small its not funny. 

I don't consider my experiences particularly amusing, and find those statistics quite misleading.

I've never heard of anybody getting struck my it while moving.

Tell that to one of my deceased friends.

And since I work with number and probability all day thought we should compare apple to apples.

We are. Electricity moves at the speed of light, 186000 miles per second. Commercial aircraft fly at about 550 miles per hour, vehicles travel at 70 miles per hour, people and animals move slowly. Who's going to win that race?

Gard

He's probably embarrassed by his incorrect statement about tires,& common sense.

Oh by the way the correct spelling for the air vehicle that was being discussed is Plane,(short for Airplane) not plain.