What would you do?
Well, I have a dilemma on my hands. After buying a 2017 XD Titan last year only to find out I severely underestimated my research as to actual payload capacity of the truck. I decided I’d do even more...
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Optimistic Paranoid wrote:wnjj wrote:
Putting a short bed camper on a long bed truck is perfectly OK. So is having the COG behind the rear axle, despite the RVrumormill.net opinion.
I have no personal experience with running a truck/camper combo with the center of gravity behind the rear axle.
I nevertheless get a bit nervous whenever somebody in a forum offers an opinion that appears to contradict logic and the laws of physics, at least in so far as I think I understand them.
If you are running with rear COG personally, do you have with and without scale readings on your setup?
I don't have personal experience as mine is slightly forward (at least until I add the trailer) but according to publications from GM, my camper COG can be anywhere in the bed so long as the percentage of total weight carried by the front axle meets a certain minimum.
COG of a truck plus the camper is all the axles see. They don't care one bit whether it's weight from the truck or its cargo. When empty, the rear axle weighs less than the front. When loaded with a camper the rear weighs close to 2x the front. How can a few hundreds pounds one way or the other make any measurable difference?