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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Interesting - I was battling sway, and while I had been to scales, I didn't know what was contributing (or not) to TW, except in general terms. So while packing for a trip, actually weighed every single thing I had added to the trailer (food, beer, pots and pans, etc., etc.). Ended up being 840 lbs, which agreed with the truck scale. And determined that there was no good way to change TW much by just moving "stuff" around. Maybe bigger batteries, and a front jack bike rack....but just got a ProPride and was done.
