Tongue weight and truck carrying capacity
Since we’re both retired now, and looking at doing more traveling and camping, I’m considering the possibilities of trading for a bigger TT. With the current truck the max towable weight is a gen...
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Ron Gratz wrote:
When unnecessary conservatism is added on top of unnecessary conservatism, the end result likely will be the purchase of a trailer which will weigh considerably less than the TV is capable of towing safely.
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Ron
Ron,
Your points are good except for one huge point. The guy is going to buy a trailer so he presently has no weighed weights to work with. He also will be going to go camping in terrain that could vary significantly from flat to mountainous. His loading profile and habits are also unknown, and we know that typically RVs are overloaded more than they are a underloaded.
I would hate for the OP or anyone to throw some unknown degree of conservatism out the window, they based on rated limits and live (or not!) to regret it. It would be prudent to err on the side of safety, for all our sakes, and increase conservatism proportionately with unknowns.
