Where I am having difficulty is the actual pin weight before we buy the rig. We are considering a Komfort 241fs which has a listed pin wt of 1359 lbs, well within the 1700lb bed load of our 2K8 Chevy TD. When I do the math on the trailer this pin wt seems to be arrived at when the 5ver is fully loaded. But is this the actual case? Will it increase when we load the rig? In some rigs we have seen the pin weight is derived with the rig empty (according the salesmen) we have spoken to. We need an accurate number before we buy it and load it up, not after. I spent over 20 years doing weight and balance professionally, can run the math, and can tell when some bozo salesman is blowing smoke. What I want is the real numbers, not smoke and word games. And the manufacture’s brochures are another tangle of numbers that are not standard or uniform. What we want to know, when it is all said and done, is what are the weights when the rig is fully loaded? What are the real world numbers? From reading this topic, it is quite clear that there are loads of misinformation, confusion, and I am afraid, a lot intentional omissions on the part of many manufactures.
