Stability, hitch and tongue weight....
Concerned over handling of my combo - but I'm inexperienced as to what "good" travel trailer towing should be like. Problem: Occasional small sway (measured in a couple of inches each way, but can ...
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DanNJanice wrote:
IMHO, I think you might just be overreacting a bit. When I first got my travel trailer I was always worrying about sway. I would feel every gust, correct, etc. Over time, I learned to trust the feel of a trailer and low and behold, my "sway" concerned disappeared.
Travel trailers do NOT tow as good as 5vrs. If you have a crosswind and a semi passes you WILL feel it. There is no such thing as someone towing a TT and "forgetting it is back there", no matter what you might read on these forums.
So far, all you have described is a bit of wiggle, never an actual "sway" event.
I am not saying you should not check everything, but in the end, if you cannot find anything wrong, then just maybe you rig is normal.
True, I am not familiar with how towing a big trailer feels. But I have had sway. Generally only a couple of times on a 70-140 mile run, and then pretty small - but some. It was the last time when the excursions got big enough that it actually kicked off the sway system in the truck that it was really an attention grabber. And that was on clear road, with no easily determined provoking cause, and it came on really fast. Semi's will move my truck alone a bit, so I'm not expecting rock steady. But being able to cruise at 60-65 rather than 55-60 would be good, at least when the winds aren't all that much.
