I appreciate the responses. I've pretty much decided to buy a tongue weight scale sometime over the winter and then I can get an accurate reading with whatever I put on the rack. I'll get a baseline reading by measuring the tongue weight with just added weight of the hitch being welded to the trailer frame. Then I can see how it changes with the empty rack added, and then with cargo added to the carrier. If I have any problems, I'll take the trailer back to the CAT scales and get an updated weight of the trailer alone, so I'd really know exactly what the tongue weight is as a percentage of total weigth.
