What trailer sway looks like

Turtle n Peeps wrote:

BenK wrote:

I see so many trailers trying to stay as close to a 10% DRY weight tongue as possible

I too have seen that trend. Trying to make the tongue weight as light as possible.

More and more trailers are being built to try and kill you just to keep the tongue weight down. Sad indeed.

I also see many trailers advertised with close to a 10% DRY tongue weight.
Most of them have a large pass-through storage bay at the very front -- about 4-5' behind the coupler.

Scales data show that, with batteries added and loaded for camping, these trailers easily can exceed 13% TW.
If these trailers started out with 13% DRY TW, they easily could exceed 15% TW when loaded.

Ron