Small Travel Trailers
My son is looking for a relatively small travel trailer. He hopes to find one with tandem axles, yet that will depend on the total weight of such a trailer. He will be pulling the trailer with a Toyot...
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Not to second guess why he wants tandem axles, but why does he want tandem on a small, light trailer?
Tandems do not turn or corner well, they tend to bend the axles as each wheel turns a different radius and fights the other axle for traction. Hard/impossible to manuver by hand also. 2 times as many wheels, brakes, bearings, tires.
Tandem does handle uneven surfaces well since no one tire dipping into a rut/hole will cause the trailer to dip. That's about it for benefit IMO
**add, I had a "13 footer", thats interior length, that had tandem axles. It was on 13 inch wheels. The reasoning, I assume, was ride quality. It did handle uneven surfaces much better than single axle would. The axles did have some bending at the hubs from the stresses common on twins.
Tandems do not turn or corner well, they tend to bend the axles as each wheel turns a different radius and fights the other axle for traction. Hard/impossible to manuver by hand also. 2 times as many wheels, brakes, bearings, tires.
Tandem does handle uneven surfaces well since no one tire dipping into a rut/hole will cause the trailer to dip. That's about it for benefit IMO
**add, I had a "13 footer", thats interior length, that had tandem axles. It was on 13 inch wheels. The reasoning, I assume, was ride quality. It did handle uneven surfaces much better than single axle would. The axles did have some bending at the hubs from the stresses common on twins.
