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Weight distribution hitches form a bridge between the pickup truck and trailer, transferring some of the trailer tongue weight off the pickup truck’s rear axle to the trailer axles.

This includes the weight of all axles and the weight on the tongue jack. The best way to measure this is to place the trailer on a full-length scale and disconnect it fully from the tow vehicle.

Place the scale, resting on a short piece of 2×6, under the trailer coupler and slowly jack it into the coupler until the jack is supporting the weight of the trailer tongue.

The trailer tongue jack supports the boat trailer when it is not hooked up to your tow vehicle. Here are some points to consider when buying one.

GM has filed a patent for a new system capable of determining vehicle payload, trailer tongue weight, and ride height using underbody cameras.

Matching Your Truck to a Slide in Camper Payload and trailer tongue weight come from the same capacity limit. Which makes hard sided heavy truck campers difficult to use with trailers.

It has the tongue- weight (TW) scale built right into the portion of the hitch shank that holds the stainless steel hitch ball. Weigh-Safe measures the downforce on the hitch ball.

An easy way to get tongue weight exactly where you want it is by using a scale, or faster yet, using a Weigh-Safe Hitch (weigh-safe.com) that has a scale built right into it.