Trying to understand payload
I have a travel trailer already but I want to buy a tow vehicle so before I go out and buy I want to understand thoroughly. I am starting with payload. I am looking at a 2007 Tundra 5.7L VV8 4 door ...
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Ron (Lanerd) is 100% correct-o-mundo about weight distribution being different from sway control.
Many, many, MANY folks mistakenly believe otherwise, and too many have come to grief as a result of that misunderstanding. The discussion at this link is a perfect example...woman writes in all puzzled about what caused their sway-induced disaster and describes what are clearly her W/D bars as "sway control". Except that they're not, as she and her husband found out.
W/D setups do make a contribution to overall stability by way of restoring weight to the front end of the tug, but unless trailer sway control is incorporated into its design, W/D does not function for that purpose and must be added.
Here's a written-for-us-novices article on sway control/WD hitches and how they're used together: Link
Many, many, MANY folks mistakenly believe otherwise, and too many have come to grief as a result of that misunderstanding. The discussion at this link is a perfect example...woman writes in all puzzled about what caused their sway-induced disaster and describes what are clearly her W/D bars as "sway control". Except that they're not, as she and her husband found out.
W/D setups do make a contribution to overall stability by way of restoring weight to the front end of the tug, but unless trailer sway control is incorporated into its design, W/D does not function for that purpose and must be added.
Here's a written-for-us-novices article on sway control/WD hitches and how they're used together: Link
