I have a 33 1/2' ball to bumper camper. Loaded it weighs in just under 10,000#. I have a 1,600# loaded TW when the bicycles are mounted on the tongue. TW drops to 1,500# TW when the bikes are at home. TW is 15 to 16% pending bikes. A key point to a stable rig is proper TW and a truck that can handle it. I only tow up to 60mph unless passing. That is all I need in speed, the rig can do more.
I have a 1 ton SRW V10 gasser, crew cab short bed and have been towing this combo since Sept 2007 with a little over 30,000 miles on it.
I am using the Reese Trunnion bar hitch with 1,700# WD bars and the DC.
The combination of the truck, camper and the WD hitch work well. I have no effect's of semi's, box truck's passing or high winds that require any steering adjustments.
I had a smaller camper, a K2500 Suburban and the Reese trunnion bar hitch with the DC also. That camper had 18% TW. The system was also a good combo for the slightly under 20,000 miles I towed it.
However, you are wanting to compare 2 different tools between the DC and the Propride. The sway control of the ProPride is mechanically better then the DC. The principles of operation are very different. You will be giving up a level of sway control in certain conditions going from a Propride to a DC. That said, the Propride is not a perfect setup either, it has it's issues too.
Don't get me wrong, the DC is a very good tool as part of a stable towing rig. But, the truck has to do it's part, the camper has to be stable and the WD hitch joins the 2.
There is an edge of the DC as far as control and I found it twice on 2 different trucks. Once on my K2500 Suburban when I changed tires. A rock solid rig turned into silly putty under high cross winds with a new tire brand change. I learned and worked through that but I knew that truck combo was 10psi in front tire pressure away from being stable. The front tires on the new first generation of LTX tires (even in LT's) where too soft to hold the truck stable at door sticker pressures (50psi). Air them up to 60psi and the whole thing got better but still not as good as the prior Steel Tex tires.
The next time I found the issue with the DC is with the rig I have now. Again tires and this time it is not the Michlean's and it is not tire pressure. I'm on my 3rd set of Continental Conti-Trac TR's. The first 2 sets I had no issues from the word go. The last set I put on in 2017, same brand, same tire the rig was no longer as stable at first. I knew better then change tire types and brand but the new rubber compounds and the way they make tires seems to be hit and miss. And the while the brand does make a difference, I found other guys with other brands of tires with good trucks can have the same issues. Something with the friction is less on brand new tires of certain brands the way they are made now. Put on 3,000 miles on the tires, and the rig comes back stable again.
Bottom Line, the truck has to hold the rig stable and the tires on it are a big part of it. The DC has to have a stable truck or it will not perform as well all things considered.
In my case, I have too much TW for a ProPride or a Hensley. At the time (2007), Reese was the only one of the high friction hitches that had a 1,700# system. The only other choice at the time was the Pull-Rite 2,000# hitch to handle the weight. I almost went with the Pull Rite if it did not derate the truck so badly in weight carrying mode. I also haul other trailers in non WD mode and that was a show stopper for me.
You have to sort out what is the most important to you. There is no "perfect" WD setup as all of them have some level of drawbacks pending your situation.
I will add this if you go with the Reese DC, make sure you get it with the trunnion bars, as it is a better setup with more WD adjustments then with the round bars. And learn how to setup the hitch so it will not bind the cam arms in turns. It will work well, but it does take more to set it up correctly. The instructions while they are better than they use to be, they do not cover all the trailer combinations out there. If you need help on the setup, let us know. That can be a post in itself.
Hope this helps
John
