Improperly secured cargo can shift around during transit creating stress on the trailer making it harder to control.
Once loaded properly with regard to front to back weight disbursement and side to side, you will then want to ensure the load is secured. It does not store any personal data.Balancing your load weight from side to side is equally important to achieving proper weight distribution. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously.
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Determine what range your tongue weight should be in and always stay within that 10-15% of GTW. It’s a scary thing to experience and witness out on the road. Trailer sway is the number one cause of trailer accidents and rather than learn the hard way of experiencing trailer sway or fishtailing, we want to inform new and even experienced towers of the dangers that can come from it. With this video, we simply wanted to demonstrate one of the negative effects of an improperly loaded trailer. Yes, we have a man “poking” the trailer in this video, yes we are using a toy car on a treadmill to demonstrate and yes, we did not fully demonstrate the driving effects of too much tongue weight given it is a toy truck. Keeping it within that range will make for a smooth and enjoyable towing experience and bring you a towing peace of mind. Which is why it is important to know the weight of your load and trailer so that you can keep your tongue weight within that 10-15% range. Sometimes loading 60% of your load onto the front of your trailer will exceed that 15% tongue weight range and is therefore more susceptible to impaired vehicle performance. You should be keeping your tongue weight of your trailer between 10-15% of your gross trailer weight. You should not load 60% of your weight onto the front of your trailer and call it good. Yes, normally it is a good rule of thumb to load 60% of your weight towards the front of the trailer but it all just depends on what you are towing and it varies between each and every load. I wanted to write this article though because of all of these comments on our Youtube video.
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These articles will give you great information on how to properly load/balance your trailer and why it is important to do so. We have written other blog posts about properly loading and balancing your trailer (click here ) as well as articles about tongue weight (click here ) for further reference if you are wanting more information. Although some of the comments we have received in regards to where the load should be based off of the axles are not completely wrong, it is important to understand that a properly balanced trailer is based off of load distribution and tongue weight. We wanted to clarify and reiterate that a properly balanced trailer is NOT axle based but rather load distribution and tongue weight based. “I always was told to keep the weight centered over the trailer axle, not in front or behind.” “I’ve always been told 60% of the weight on the nose and 40% on the tail.” “Most of the weight has to be over the front of the trailer and tongue.” This video has since received hundreds of thousands of views and comments and many of those comments are in regards to where the load is placed on the trailer. Here is that video just in case you haven’t seen it: We used a treadmill to do this demonstration as well as a small toy truck and trailer as there was no way to do a real life demonstration with how dangerous improper loading, balancing and tongue weight can be. If you’re trying to figure out how to properly load your trailer, there are a few things you need to know.Ī couple months ago we uploaded a video to our social media pages including our Youtube channel and in this video, we demonstrate what can happen if you are towing a load with improper tongue weight.