Quote Originally Posted by uwskier View Post
While a 2500 would certainly be better, it's not as simple as just taking 16% of trailer weight and saying you're adding that to the truck. That 1250 lbs once WDH is engaged and set up properly is probably more like 800-900 lbs against the truck's payload with the rest born by the trailer axles. A trip to the truck scales with the WDH engaged will show what I mean. Yes, technically the tongue weight is 1250, but it's not all payload.
I mentioned that I did take the truck trailer combo to the scales. It had a properly employed 1000 Blue Ox Pro a good WDH.

Payload is payload . The WDH doesn’t lighten the trailer does it? No where have I ever read that using a WDH allows you to add more weight but maybe I’m misinformef