The post above is right, FORGET DRY WEIGHT, it is a useless number unless you want to estimate.
Also Forget looking at any trailer until you do the most important thing. Weigh your tow vehicle! Load it up with the family, and any cargo you assume you will carry in it, and take it to a CAT scale. Pay the $11.50 for the weigh ticket.
Now take your vehicles GVWR and subtract the scale weight from it. That is your available payload. Take that number and divide by .13. That is your available trailer GVWR.
Got all this down?
Great, now go shopping based on the GVWR you calculated.
You don't have it?
Here is an example.
Truck scales at 6000 pounds, GVWR is 6750 pounds, leaving 750 pounds available payload.
750/.13 = 5769
Now you know the max you can tow is 5770 pounds and be right at the limit of the TV.
As others pointed out, 13% tongue weight is smack dab in the middle of the 10-15 % recommended tongue weight, and trust me, you do NOT want to tow a travel trailer with 10% tongue weight. The more weight up front on the ball, the better it handles the wind.
