Buckling bronco!

WVcampground wrote:


You're making some assumptions.

You assume that all RV dealers do not know how to set up a WDH. You're assuming WDH manufacturers put instructions in with the product to just "get close". They could easily put in those instruction "visit a scale, weigh everything, and adjust following this procedure".

You can go to a scale and adjust to your hearts content but then you need to load the RV and tow vehicle exactly the same every time you hit the road. If you're going to go to those extremes to get 100% dead on perfect, you need to have the weights 100% the same to maintain it at all times. Better add ballast as you burn off fuel somehow too.

I did not assume anything about "all" RV dealers. I said "most". That is not an assumption but a fact that I have learned over the many years of towing and RVing.
I agree with the statement about what they "...could easily put..." but they don't.

My experience is that most RVers load pretty much the same way every time they go out. I know I usually did as did most of those I am friends with, and when the time came that I changed something major I weighed again. You know as well as I do that the last sentence about ballast is a trolling statement and not worth arguing against.

I have no idea what your towing experience is but your statements make me believe that you have not done much towing with a travel trailer. If you had, then you would most likely agree with me that the only way to get your hitch set up correctly for the best possible towing experience is by weighing it and not by simply measuring fender clearances.
Barney