How heavy of a trailer can I get?
OK so I just posted another topic about my payload but after the help of others, I figured out that with everyone in the vehicle (including another child down the road) and our gas tank full we are le...
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Shorteelaw wrote:naturist wrote:
900/0.15=6,000 lbs max. That's for a fully loaded trailer. I'd suggest 4,000 lbs empty weight is in the ballpark.
I thought the general rule of thumb was adding 1,000 pounds to the dry weight... why would it be 2,000? With it full of water and all our stuff we would never hit 2,000 pounds. Just curious so I can understand.
Safety margin. Junk expands to fill the space allotted to it. It is way to easy to load up, go somewhere, find you need some little thing, add it and one day discover you are suddenly way overweight. For some reason, everyone does this, so you might as well allow for it up front.
Don't forget, too, that it's the passengers and rubble they drag into the truck that's limiting you here, and every pound they add reduces the trailer payload by 6.7 lbs.
