Advertised TH tonue weight

2500 Grunt wrote:

mdamerell wrote:
1st I'm surprised they used 10% since the rule of thumb is 10-15%. 15% of 12,900# is 1935#.

You need to weight truck and trailer together and then weight just the truck to get our real numbers. You can't go on what it use to weight. Your WD hitch will also move so weight up onto the steer axle.

Normally the TW listed is dry weight. If you divide 1318# by 8692# = 15.16% ratio. Your gross of 12,900# times 15.16% gives an approximate 1956# TW at GVWR on trailer.

Spent about 45 minutes politely talking to the service mgr about that debate (10 vs 15%) and they always go only by the GVWR of the trailer when calculating tongue weight. Also discussed how a TH is generally heavier than a TT but ??? My truck is 7500# on the scale so with my loaded trailer axle of 11100 plus a tongue weight of about 2200# my GVWR is 13300# and the listed GVWR of trailer is 12900 (400# over).

I told him that I was under the assumption that the above link should be the dry tongue weight but he says no it's the loaded or GVWR.....Time to call Evergreen on Monday.

Debating the accuracy of the manufacturers specs or what's better, 10% or 15% tongue weight is kinda moot at this point. Bottom line, you're tongue weight is way too high and you're over your GVWR.

IMO, you need a good baseline to resolve your issues:

1. Weigh your TH to find the **realworld** tongue weight + axle weight = GVWR, **EMPTY**.

2. Where do you have everything loaded in your TH? Can any or all of it be moved directly over or ideally behind the axles on your TH?

3. Is there anything you have loaded in your TH you can live without?