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Re: Travel Trailer thoughts....
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Model 315BHT
GVWR 14,170 lbs.
Hitch Weight 2,170 lbs.
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Ignore the hitch weight because it's "dry" weight, and nobody tows a dry trailer.
Almost all RVers will load the trailer down to the GVWR or beyond. So you probably will too. So use 14,000 pounds as the trailer weight and compute the pin weight at 18 percent of that. Or a wet and loaded pin weight weight of about 2,500.
If your wet and loaded tow vehicle weighs 8,000 pounds, and with 2,500 pounds of pin weight, that's 10,500 pounds GVW and 22,000 pounds GCW.
Granted, pin weight on that size trailer can vary from about 17 percent to over 20 percent, so the 18 percent is an estimate. Note that the dry pin weight is a little over 20 percent of dry trailer weight, and that percentage should hold if you properly distribute the load within the trailer. You won't know the real pin weight until you weigh the wet and loaded rig at a CAT scale. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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