Again, all of the weight is carried by the truck bed itself. When you install the pin that holds the hitch to the ball, you then torque the bolt on the top of the square portion of Andersen hitch. This pulls the whole hitch down firmly on the bed of the truck. The instructions now have you do this with the weight of the trailer on the hitch so it's actually held down pretty solidly to the truck bed. With 3000 plus pounds of pin weight my normal trailer loading has results in the bed of my truck having completely flat indents in the spray in bedliner of my truck where the hitch lies.
