valhalla360 wrote:
Grit dog wrote:
valhalla360 wrote:
What advantage is there in not using them?
Because an unloaded dually WANTS some weight in back. 0 need unless it’s killing the hitch receiver. But to that point, I’ll point out the vast numbers of duallies that fire up every morning with Waaaay more hooked up than that.....every day every where.
Remember like 95% of the wdh users are RV ers and 95% of the trucks are not towing travel trailers.
95% of pickups are towing utility trailers with low sides and less than 3-4,000lbs.
I see duallies running around empty all the time. They seem to survive just fine. If it really needs extra weight, throw some sand bags in the back, so it will be happy when there is no trailer hooked up.
The effort to use them is negligible, they already have them and they do improve the ride & safety. So far you haven't provided any logical reason not to use them other than you seem to think it's more macho not to.
No, not macho and not trying to start an argument, unless going against the rvnet grain is considered that.
But after about 30 years now of seeing, repairing, driving or just managing work that requires trailer towing daily, I've seen some of the worst break the rear axle tongue heavy setups and worst no weight on the tongue all over the road setups possible. Would some benefit from a wdh? Absolutely. Will a guy go around snapping hitch receivers with a little too much tongue weight? Not likely unless there's another root cause. Back in high school, I plated and welded the frame back together on both sides of a new 1 ton dump truck, cracked the frame both sides, separate loads. Replaced both rear axle shafts, bent, different loads. Within a year or so that truck had more broke or wore out parts from abuse than I've ever seen. Not my truck, my job to keep it on the road, though. The one thing that didn't break was the OE 1989 model 2" square tube receiver.
That is really extreme, but in the OPs scenario, why would one NOT want to have a healthy 1000lbs or so on the back of a dually for a road trip rather than buck boarding all the way to the campground?
AND to the other comments about RV hotshotters and construction, yep all day, every day. To add, there are a couple hot shot drivers on another forum, one with a 2500 Ram mega cab. 2014 model truck, over 300kmiles hauling new campers. Guy doesn't even own a wdh for the travel trailers he pulls daily......but by some peoples metric he should not be able to accomplish this without being a blatant road hazard and simultaneously destroying his truck.