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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eric" data-source="post: 6620" data-attributes="member: 108">What is the gross vehicle weight of your trailer?Yes, your axles combined are rated for 10,000 pounds but this isnt your gross vehicle weight. That doesnt include the tongue weight.I have a sticker on my trailer that tells me this info. My trailer has a GVW of 25,000 pounds. My axles are rated for 10,000 pounds each. Both axles together gives me 20,000 pounds. This leaves me with 5,000 for my tongue weight which is 20% of my trailers gross vehichle weight.You nead to find out what your GVW for that trailer is. Your tongue weight should be about 2,500 based on your axle capacitys. So your trailers GVW should be 12,500 pounds.Make sure that the hitch on your truck is rated for 2,500 pounds of tongue weight.Another issue with tongue weight is that when your tow vehicle is loaded to its GVW, then adding a trailer will then overload your truck due to the tongue weight. This will put the rear axle over its rated operating capacity when using a tag trailer.</blockquote>