How to load a trailer makes is crucial to towing safety. Keep 10-15% of the total weight on the tongue and arrange cargo with ...

Checking the tongue weight of your trailer is important for trailer stability. It's easy to do with a bathroom scale and a ...

The tongue jack must be rated to handle the tongue weight of your trailer. This is typically somewhere between 10 and 15 percent of the weight of the boat and trailer. ­Except for very light, little ...

Another one is the RVR9 ($3,999, etrailer.com), one of four remote-control dollies from Trailer Valet. Looking like a Martian rover, the RVR9 is rated for 900 pounds of tongue weight and 9,000-pound ...

One of the best tongue jacks around tight now is the Brute Power Jack from Husky Towing Products: It sells for less than $200 and takes less than a 1/2-hour to install on most equipment trailers.

Fiddling around with the manual trailer tongue jack is a waste of good time and energy. So is dealing with slow, finicky or worn-out electric jacks. When it comes time to put an end to wasted ...