Hi
the yellow door sticker on my new cyclone shows the vehicle weight being ~11800 lbs. the gross weighting says 14000 lbs. the axle weights on the side sticker says 7k lbs each.
while at the rv show there was a heartland rep that said that the axles can carry 14k load and that the "5th wheel" (hitch load in bed of truck) can carry ~2500lbs of load. he's saying that they (heartland) does this to keep the advertised weight on the tags of the trailer below the 15k lbs limit when in actually the trailer then can gross out at 16500 (14k + 2500) lbs.
he also said that heartland takes into account for water weights when they post the cargo weight for the trailer. the tag shows something like 2k lbs of cargo and water at something like 960 lbs full load.
any idea if this is indeed correct? if so, then a 16k hitch won't work and I should go larger, say 18k correct? or is a 16k hitch ok because they say they are rated for 16k trailer and a 4k pin weight.
my numbers might not be exactly correct, the idea of my questions are more along the line what these weight are actully saying. does it really mean that you can load the axles with 14k, and the hitch with 2500lbs? or is it saying at a trailer weight of 14k lbs there is only 11500 lbs on the axles with the 2500 on the hitch? to me that doesn't see logical and it will end up being over a 16k loaded trailer.
thoughts?
the yellow door sticker on my new cyclone shows the vehicle weight being ~11800 lbs. the gross weighting says 14000 lbs. the axle weights on the side sticker says 7k lbs each.
while at the rv show there was a heartland rep that said that the axles can carry 14k load and that the "5th wheel" (hitch load in bed of truck) can carry ~2500lbs of load. he's saying that they (heartland) does this to keep the advertised weight on the tags of the trailer below the 15k lbs limit when in actually the trailer then can gross out at 16500 (14k + 2500) lbs.
he also said that heartland takes into account for water weights when they post the cargo weight for the trailer. the tag shows something like 2k lbs of cargo and water at something like 960 lbs full load.
any idea if this is indeed correct? if so, then a 16k hitch won't work and I should go larger, say 18k correct? or is a 16k hitch ok because they say they are rated for 16k trailer and a 4k pin weight.
my numbers might not be exactly correct, the idea of my questions are more along the line what these weight are actully saying. does it really mean that you can load the axles with 14k, and the hitch with 2500lbs? or is it saying at a trailer weight of 14k lbs there is only 11500 lbs on the axles with the 2500 on the hitch? to me that doesn't see logical and it will end up being over a 16k loaded trailer.
thoughts?