Tow Vehicles and Hitches
Hey everyone, I have a few posts on full time RVing with my wife and now we are looking for our truck. I need some information though on weight distribution. The RV we're looking at is the Freed...
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wiiman3893 wrote:
But isn't the payload dealing with a different set of forces based on the truck's 2 axles? My understanding is that the payload would be affected by the tongue weight, which does apply that force to the truck's axles. I know that the vehicle weight is labelled much lower than it typically is as it is the weight with an empty gas tank, so is it related to towing capacity? By which I mean the actual amount the vehicle can tow, not what the dealer says or anything.
Maybe a different analogy using your own body...
The Backpack is the 'cargo' or 'payload' with the trailer tongue hooked
up to your belt buckle...that is the weight stuff...TV (your body)
GVWR, front/rear GAWR (your feet)
Now the tow rating is what the above can pull via your belt buckle...
The GCWR is all of them both together as the rating your body is rated for
The OEMs used a butt naked person with no optional clothing (shoes,
pants, shorts, shirt, t-shirt, gloves, socks, etc, etc) except for
the towing option...the belt and it's buckle
But most folks has optional stuff. Pants, shoes, socks, shorts, shirt,
t-shirt, gloves, Swiss Army knife, key chain, wallet, handkerchief,
coins, lip balm, cell phone, extra cell battery, armored cell phone
case, wrist watch, cell ear piece, gold chain necklaces, wedding
ring, and a big ETC
All of those 'options' takes away from the cargo/payload rating of
stuff in the back pack...oh...the weight of that backpack counts too
So unless your TV is going to be a butt naked truck...does it have
the MTWR (max tow weight rating)
