handye9 wrote:
I've heard toy haulers run heavy on the tongue (average travel trailer runs about 12 - 13 percent) to compensate for toys in the garage.
Toy haulers are built much like boat trailers, for the same reason. The axles are further back than on a regular camper. That gives a relatively high unloaded tongue weight (most of the weight is in front of the axles). It's also because most of the added load is expected to be behind the axles (like the weight of the engine is at the back of a motor boat), which reduces tongue weight. Because of that, just like with boat trailers, the conventional tongue weight percentage rules may not apply.
I'd load everything in the back of the trailer and not in the TV to reduce the load on the TV suspension.
