How many don’t use a weight distribution hitch?

[tron67j]

It's like swimming in calm waters where a shark warning had been posted; it can be smooth on top and you may be fine, but meanwhile you have an open cut and just below the surface is a shark you don't see.

The lack of squat means nothing, if you apply physics to understand the result of towing without proper WD with a WDH you know what is going on under the visible surface and you won't do it. And bags alone don't do squat.

Meanwhile the swimmer's buddy says " it looks fine out here, let's swim longer"...

 

[SniperDroid]

tron67j,

I agree with the need for one, and I use an Equalizer 4 point every time we tow the Catalina. Properly adjusted, you may not remember your towing when going down the road. I see the transporters for trailers on the high way all the time, and they NEVER use one. For me, it just makes things safer.

 

[NotSoFast]

I tow a 4000 pound 20 foot TT with my 2020 Cummins 2500. Not much trailer for that truck. And it's always rock solid. I can pull up a steep twisting mountain grade with heavy intermittent cross winds and never feel any sway at all. I have never seen a need for any special hitch.

 

[SniperDroid]

I tow a 4000 pound 20 foot TT with my 2020 Cummins 2500. Not much trailer for that truck. And it's always rock solid. I can pull up a steep twisting mountain grade with heavy intermittent cross winds and never feel any sway at all. I have never seen a need for any special hitch.

Single Axle trailer? Smaller footprint.. My Catalina is 29 feet long, 12 feet tall, and dual axle. With the original 150 Ford I started out with, I would not try to tow it without a WDH. My Equalizer 4 point works so well, I don't want to try to tow without it. In electronics repair we always remind the customer, "It will probably work, until it doesn't!" When they want to do something out of order.

 

[bigcitymike]

I have a 2019 3500 SRW, and I tow a 38' dual axle travel trailer that grosses out a touch over 10K (8k empty). I'd hazard a guess it weighed about 9k going by what it weighed in the last time I took it to a CAT scale. I have a BlueOx WDH set up by the dealer with 10k bars. I I've been running it at the factory 9 link setting. I've driven across the country once before (7k round trip), and I have a dozen or more smaller trips with this combo.

This last trip across the country in the open plains on I40 I had some issues. After traveling eastbound from OKC going to Sacramento, just east of Amarillo I had enough of being blown around for that leg of the drive. I couldn't comfortably go 75 MPH and had to dial it back to the low 60's still being blown around quite a bit. Winds were in the 20's MPH coming from the north, so a decent cross-wind. To make it worse, since I couldn't go 75, the Semi's were passing me, which only added to the crappy sway / pushing conditions. The wheel felt pretty squishy, and I had to point the center of the wheel to the 1 O'clock position pretty steadily to keep it straight (which is not common/normal for this truck).

After a nights rest, I unloaded the BlueOx and decreased a link to use a setting of 8 (adding tension to the bars). That helped out quite a bit, but further down the road in AZ/CA I ran into some 30-35 MPH winds and still felt what I would consider a decent amount of sway. Don't really recall running into this issue on the trips before, but to be honest, this was probability the first time I had 25-35 MPH crosswinds to deal with for a sustainable amount of time.

Saw plenty of hotshot's hauling trailers west (both SRW and DRW), and none of them had WHD. I hoped to catch up with one at a truck stop to ask them about sway issues, but never got the chance.

 

[pacofortacos]

I don't use one, but all I tow is a boat

 

[2015HD]

I towed my 35' TT (8k) with a 2019 2500 6.4L and 2015 2500 5.7L. With both trucks I always used my Blue OX Sway Pro and not because of squat but because you can feel how light the front end gets without it. 75MPH on the highway with 30+ MPH cross winds was never an issue BUT, you will definitely feel the difference if the setup isn't correct or if you use the wrong # of chain links. It's hard to tell if these poor folks had a proper WDH setup but if I were to bet my money would be on no.