Trailer Life helps perpetuate the 1/2 ton towable myth

There's engineers and then there's common sense. IMO too much built in CYA with engineered ratings. It's one thing to say that it takes so much PSI to bend a piece of steel x amount of inches as opposed to lets add x amount of safety factor to cover their a$$. I was in the construction industry for 30 years and can't count how many times some engineered aspect failed. Punch all the number you want but in the end you have to have common sense to make them work. JMHO.