Is a higher TT GVWR better?

westend wrote:

outwestbound wrote:
If a travel trailer's load (all my cargo, liquids, batts, LP, etc.)PLUS dry trailer weights were hypothetically say 8,200lbs for two TTs I'm considering, but the GVWR on one was 9800 and the other 11,000, wouldn't the higher GVWR be the safest? Ignoring cost, wouldn't the TT with the highest GVWR, even if I don't need to put more cargo in it, essentially be safer due to stronger brake system?

That theory assumes that the higher GVWR trailer has different brakes. There are only so many choices in brake size out there.

Yes, I assumed the brakes would be different but clearly I need to lean more about the specs on all machinery involved; TT and TV. Industry information is sketchy for sure. I'd assumed the dry TT weights to be equal, so to a newbie, if what I put onto the TT was also equal, but the two trailers advertised very different GVWR, then something must account for the increased GVWR (presumably braking). The more kind folks like you all that respond to my questions the more I realize how loose the RV industry - perhaps more in TTs than say motorcoaches, is with facts.

I'm a numerical guy and this whole thing conceptually is a basic optimization subject to constraint exercise. But getting viable assumptions and data is killing me; it will just take time and I learn more every day.