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:
I agree that max we shouldn't go over 6,000 when we fully load it. Then the issue becomes I don't think I should be using the max the trailer could weigh to find that number because that's with us in it and when we tow it we won't be in the trailer and when we are traveling with others they will be hauling food etc and when they aren't we will be camping at places that have water hook ups. So I guess I need to figure out what all of our stuff weighs and go from there.
People are not factored onto the GVWR of a trailer, that is the towed GVWR not a parked GVWR.
Plan on 15% tongue weight, TT's are heavy on tongue weight when headed out. They might drop to 10% on the trip home, but you need to tow it both ways.
Plan on carrying more than you think, moving stuff around will get old and there are lots of small things you aren't thinking about.
