The Impact of Camp and Travel Loads on Your Car and Trailer - Pt 1

If you’re a camper and traveller, there is a huge chance by now that you’ve given at least a moment’s thought to the gear you take and its impact on the car - and possibly your trailer.

While I’m not trying to preach to you here, I thought I’d do up a couple of videos that try to take the ‘black magic’ out of the terms and acronyms such as Axle Loads, Gross Trailer Mass (GTM), Payload, Gross Trailer Mass (GTM) and Aggregate Trailer Mass (ATM) - to name a few.

The loads you put in, and on, your car and/or trailer have a flow -on effect to the axle loads - as does where you physically place these loads fore and aft of the axles.

So, join me now as I work with you to demystify these loads and their effect, using bits of timber, a couple of kitchen scales and some sugar cubes.

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Thanks again Lyndon. Have you seen the others in the series? Episode 4 is coming very soon.