Travel Trailer weight vs vehicle hauling
I have a 2014 Ford Flex with the towing packing that allows us to tow up to 4500lbs. We are interested in purchasing Forest River Rockwood Mini Lite 2306 which says the UVW is 3890 and the GVWR says T...
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dodge guy wrote:
No one that I know of travels with full tanks! I only travel with 8 gallons of fresh water and empty grey/black tanks.
And why I said people normally don't do that, but as someone else mentioned, people camp in places without hook ups or availability to water and or dump stations. When we camped at a place in the mountains that had no hookups, we went with a full 40 gallon fresh water tank plus another 12 gallons in containers. The campground did have water spigots, but we were not going to fully rely on them as we didn't know what their condition was (or if the water was safe). So, even on the way home, we still had between 50-60 gallons of liquid in the tanks (fresh/black/gray) until we could get to the dump station near home later on.
