Just looking for your views on this.

I see these scrap car haulers towing with trailers, and they always drive the vehicule on the trailer, putting all the weight on the tongue.

I haul Backhoes and dozers and my broken down plow trucks all the time with my 05 and I always try to have the most weight on the axles of the trailer, not on my pintle. That's how I was shown and how I did it all my life.

Are they just lazy or is there something I'm missing out on? I mean, trailers are cheaper to fix than truck suspensions and frames, no??

 

It makes it alot easier for the truck to pull when you put the weight over the axles on the trailer. I see the same thing all the time and want to slap them lol. But you are 110% correct. Now I have hauled stuff on trailers and had no choice but to run the weight all the way on the tongue so itd fit but I don't like doing that.

 

The ride is noticeable better if the weight is over the axle and or distributed equally on the trailer... not sure why some folks can't figure that out.

 

Thanks to you both. I know all too well the damages that can be done with too much weight on the hitch, because I once rented my dumper to a roofing outfit and when I picked it back up, the damn thing was soo overloaded that it ripped one of my Timbrens. Then I noticed my hitch was leaning towards the back after unloading the trailer, went under to look, and sure enough, the back end of my frame was bent. Ok this was an old yard truck of mine, but the frame was very sound before that....