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Originally Posted by jreed456
The trailer says tongue weight is 585, which I know is unloaded, but I don’t understand how some of you are getting to an estimate of 900 - 1000 lbs with a weight distribution hitch.
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For comparison, the brochure rating for my trailer (2010 30RKS) is 530 lbs. I've scaled it at just over 1,000 lbs.
The brochure weights are useless for calculating anything. My trailer is ~8,200 lbs loaded. My tongue weight is right around 12%. That is numbers from a scale.
If your max weight is 7,585 then your tongue will be 12-15%, or 900 - 1100 lbs.
Now once I hook up my trailer bars, the weight added to the truck was around 800 lbs, with the WD hitch moving some of the weight back onto the trailer. My payload is just over 2,000 lbs for 1 2015 Sierra 1/2 ton trailer package.