Tongue weight is the amount of weight a trailer puts on the towing vehicle’s trailer ball. The tongue is the part of the trailer that sticks out ahead of the cargo area; it’s typically two rails that ...

GM has filed a patent for a new system capable of determining vehicle payload, trailer tongue weight, and ride height using underbody cameras. The patent application was assigned patent number US 2024 ...

Payload and trailer tongue weight come from the same capacity limit. Which makes hard sided heavy truck campers difficult to use with trailers. It’s fairly common for a ¾ ton truck to be overloaded ...