The difference between dry an loaded weight.
When I bought my 25 ft. TT the literature said 5004 lbs. dry and 400 lbs. on the tongue. Common sense said it would weigh more when loaded but how much more? So before a couple of our trips I took ...
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time2roll wrote:dodge guy wrote:So what is your tow rating? What is the trailer GVWR?sgfrye wrote:time2roll wrote:
I always recommend planning to tow the full GVWR.
Forget dry weight unless you just transport new trailers for a living.
LOL
im still learning weights and specs myself however
thinking this might be simplest, most common sense answer yet
If it’s a trailer with a very low CCC then yes. But as I have said, some trailers are as much as 3-4K lbs. my trailer has a 4100lb CCC. No way I would use the GVWR.
My tow rating is 11k lbs. my trailer GVWR is 11,200 lbs. loaded for a week long trip my trailer scales at 9200 lbs. the dry weight, is 7136 lbs. (brochure weight is 7041). As I said I will never see the trailers full GVWR. Even on our previous trailer it was 5200 dry and loaded for a week long trip weighed 6500 lbs with a 7200 lb GVWR.
