Trailer weight capacity/axle weight capacity

Less likely it will happen in the RV business. The volume isn't there.

Doesn't the RV business brag about selling 500,000 units in a year? That almost a drop in the bucket WRT the auto industry.

dodge guy wrote:

Old-Biscuit wrote:

JCR-1 wrote:

drsteve wrote:

JCR-1 wrote:
Thanks oops forgot about the tongue.. but still aren't they cutting things close without much of a safety margin considering pot holes speed humps overweight and the like... I guess Chinese engineering is hitting America as well ??? and yes the tire load ratings are similarly slim as well.

Not Chinese engineering--good old American capitalism. Maximize profit by spending the least they can get away with. The RV industry has become especially bad about this since its consolidation into a handful of huge corporations.

Isn't that the same as Chinese Engineering ?

Actually a little Chinese Engineering might be what is needed to get these American Engineering a swift kick in the head and cause a little chaos
Kinda like when Datsun, Nisson, Toyota showed up and Detroit had to change.
Elkhart Indiana could use a reality check.....sooner the better

Yep! They are doing what Detroit did in the later 70’s early 80’s. If they don’t get their act together bad things will come there way!

Old-Biscuit wrote:

JCR-1 wrote:

drsteve wrote:

JCR-1 wrote:
Thanks oops forgot about the tongue.. but still aren't they cutting things close without much of a safety margin considering pot holes speed humps overweight and the like... I guess Chinese engineering is hitting America as well ??? and yes the tire load ratings are similarly slim as well.

Not Chinese engineering--good old American capitalism. Maximize profit by spending the least they can get away with. The RV industry has become especially bad about this since its consolidation into a handful of huge corporations.

Isn't that the same as Chinese Engineering ?

Actually a little Chinese Engineering might be what is needed to get these American Engineering a swift kick in the head and cause a little chaos
Kinda like when Datsun, Nisson, Toyota showed up and Detroit had to change.
Elkhart Indiana could use a reality check.....sooner the better

Yep! They are doing what Detroit did in the later 70’s early 80’s. If they don’t get their act together bad things will come there way!

Old-Biscuit wrote:

JCR-1 wrote:

drsteve wrote:

JCR-1 wrote:
Thanks oops forgot about the tongue.. but still aren't they cutting things close without much of a safety margin considering pot holes speed humps overweight and the like... I guess Chinese engineering is hitting America as well ??? and yes the tire load ratings are similarly slim as well.

Not Chinese engineering--good old American capitalism. Maximize profit by spending the least they can get away with. The RV industry has become especially bad about this since its consolidation into a handful of huge corporations.

Isn't that the same as Chinese Engineering ?

Actually a little Chinese Engineering might be what is needed to get these American Engineering a swift kick in the head and cause a little chaos
Kinda like when Datsun, Nisson, Toyota showed up and Detroit had to change.
Elkhart Indiana could use a reality check.....sooner the better

x2
that is why american auto makers had to step up their game to compete with toyota, honda, nissan etc.

now american made mid level cars are as reliable as japan's

JCR-1 wrote:

drsteve wrote:

JCR-1 wrote:
Thanks oops forgot about the tongue.. but still aren't they cutting things close without much of a safety margin considering pot holes speed humps overweight and the like... I guess Chinese engineering is hitting America as well ??? and yes the tire load ratings are similarly slim as well.

Not Chinese engineering--good old American capitalism. Maximize profit by spending the least they can get away with. The RV industry has become especially bad about this since its consolidation into a handful of huge corporations.

Isn't that the same as Chinese Engineering ?

Actually a little Chinese Engineering might be what is needed to get these American Engineering a swift kick in the head and cause a little chaos
Kinda like when Datsun, Nisson, Toyota showed up and Detroit had to change.
Elkhart Indiana could use a reality check.....sooner the better

drsteve wrote:

JCR-1 wrote:
Thanks oops forgot about the tongue.. but still aren't they cutting things close without much of a safety margin considering pot holes speed humps overweight and the like... I guess Chinese engineering is hitting America as well ??? and yes the tire load ratings are similarly slim as well.

Not Chinese engineering--good old American capitalism. Maximize profit by spending the least they can get away with. The RV industry has become especially bad about this since its consolidation into a handful of huge corporations.

Isn't that the same as Chinese Engineering ?

JCR-1 wrote:
Thanks oops forgot about the tongue.. but still aren't they cutting things close without much of a safety margin considering pot holes speed humps overweight and the like... I guess Chinese engineering is hitting America as well ??? and yes the tire load ratings are similarly slim as well.

Not Chinese engineering--good old American capitalism. Maximize profit by spending the least they can get away with. The RV industry has become especially bad about this since its consolidation into a handful of huge corporations.

Thanks oops forgot about the tongue.. but still aren't they cutting things close without much of a safety margin considering pot holes speed humps overweight and the like... I guess Chinese engineering is hitting America as well ??? and yes the tire load ratings are similarly slim as well.

YEP.........

Subtract trailer tongue weight from trailer axle rating
Tongue weight 10% - 15%


Trailer tire ratings will be marginal also

Because 10% or more (depending on type of trailer) is not supported by the axles, it's supported by the tongue/pin.