9500lb vs 7600 lb trailer
If you have seen our other posts, we are in the process of buying a new old stock travel trailer, a 2014 Forest River Cherokee Grey Wolf 29BH. We haven't confirmed the deal yet, but we are close to ...
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dodge guy wrote:Well said. That is the most logical approach.
Unless your going to be towing either trailer fully loaded the GVWR is just a guide. What I recommend is using the dry weight and adding approx. 1200-1500lbs to it. This would get you close to your real world ready to travel weight. Some trailers have a very low CCC, some have a CCC that is very high. For instance my trailer has a 4100lb CCC so if I went by the GVWR I probably wouldn't have bought it, however the dry weight is 7100lbs and the GVWR IS 11,200lbs. The trailer weighs 9200lbs loaded for a week long trip.
So I would recommend taking the dry weight and adding 1200-1500lbs to it. Much better to use the weights you will be towing at instead of a weight you will likely never see!
Our TT has a GVWR of 10,000 Lbs with a dry weight of 6,100 Lbs. No way am I ever going to haul 3,900 Lbs CCC in the TT. Even when we travel for a couple of months at a time, we don't carry half the CCC.
