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Hello, Thank you for that experienced wisdom of "once it goes in,most likely it stays in, then more goes in" concept John. This is a very valid scenario that needs to be considered and remembered. Gross Combined Weight Rating is 19,000 LBs for the truck. so we have
10995 max trailer
5910 curb,
825 passengers &cargo
1484 tongue weight (using 13.5% of max loaded TT)
19214 max of everything which is 214 Lbs over
hypothetically lets go with loaded 10,800 as max loaded TT weight
which I think is high since the 10,800 is scale weight taken from a real life 316BIK that is 443 Lbs heavier from the start than the 311 BHS.
10,800 max tt
5910 curb
825 passengers & cargo & hitch
1458 tongue weight
18993 GCWR
What I think is realistic for calculation is
10,400 max tt
5910 curb
825 passengers & cargo (includes hitch)
1456 tongue weight using 14% of 10,400
18591 GCWR
Still very heavy and close to the red line but under.
Realistically I assume we want 10-12 % for hitch weight and not 13.5 or 14 for balancing ?
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