Towing Advice - 31' Travel Trailer

phenrichs wrote:
My suggestion is if you have the ability, load the rig as it would be for a trip and take it to a scale and weigh it all. This will tell you for sure that things are setup correctly.

Good advice here. Once you know your weights, read this thread on hitch setup and be sure all is correct. I know you said you had your hitch "professionally" installed to save the hassle of the details, but I will tell you two things:

1) Over 10 years on this forum and I have yet to see anybody who has had their hitch installed correctly by a "professional". In fairness, the dealer sets up the hitch when you buy the trailer, but the trailer is empty! The hitch needs to be re-adjusted to compensate for the additional weight after the trailer is loaded for camping. The average family with a couple of kids will add about 1500 lbs of stuff to a trailer that size. The floorplan of the unit dictates whether heavy stuff is ahead of or behind the axle, and the trailer needs to tow as level as possible when it's loaded.

2) There is no way to shortcut the details on understanding what the weights and measurements mean, they are essential to getting the hitch set up properly.

phenrichs wrote:
When properly adjusted, meaning hitch and load inside TV and TT are balanced, you will barely notice anything is behind you unless you are braking.

Once you have the rig dialed in, you will the confidence to cruise at any speed you like without worry.

I would also suggest that you have a GOOD set of towing mirrors if you don't already have them on the 350. Adjust them so that you can see all the way down both sides of the trailer. This does a lot for confidence in traffic.