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Scott, thanks very much for those tips!  Yes, I've towed an extended 2H (but all steel) horse trailer across country as well as a big pop-up just upstate, but I do recall the brake controllers being touchy and incessantly confusing.  So I will definitely refresh with the video you linked (yay...

Great list of stuff!  Thankie, thankie! Re the brakes, they haven't been used much.  Do they still need service (or even more so because they haven't?) before I haul it home? Owner did his own wheel bearings - I'll find out what exactly he means by that, and when last done. Definitely needs new...

LOL, you da cute dude, Grashley.  What I was actually thinking with the question was... older trailer, sitting all its life except for an hour or so on the road 2x/year (flat unstressed highway trips)... would that allow tank and other seals, etc. to get hardened in place so that if I suddenly...

I'm looking at a TT I really like.  Excellent condition (2004).  The owners have mostly used it for a seasonal site they rent every year an hour away from their home, so it's only been on the road 2x/year for an hour each way.  Plus a few other camping trips, but mostly parked either at the...

I will Grashley, thanks!  It will be a while before I actually buy the truck.  Have not yet purchased the TT I like, but sure am flirting with it.

Oh I will definitely not disappear, lol.  Thanks for the warmie though.  ;-)

Okay, I'm backing off the cargo van idea as a tow vehicle at least to start with.  I won't bore you with why but what I wanted from it will be way less often needed than what would actually probably work better with a crew cab PU and a lockable toneau cover or cap.  What I think I have found...

Scott-  Main reason for the cargo van vs. truck is that my tow vehicle would be my car as well.  It would also serve as a camper that may not be pretty to the eye but would work for me.  But in terms of "my car" use, I would strongly prefer an empty van to a pickup truck.  (First waking thought...

Will do Mark, thanks very much.  It's a truck I'm looking at now.  If cargo vans are as uncomfortable to drive as what I'm now finding they sound like, then I think I need to revise my thinking about trucks.  TO EVERYONE!  Thank you ALL so VERY much for helping me figure out what these...

Thanks Scott- I've also been operating under the impression that a "cargo van" is not necessarily as bare bones as a "cargo van WT" but now I'm wondering if I'm wrong and that any cargo van is going to be super bare bones in terms of seat comfort, etc. in the cab area.  If you happen to know...

Hoooooookay.  It's now making sense.  It was no brainer how to find out weight of each vehicle, but it was the tongue weight itself that was hanging me up.  Whew!  The remaining unknown now understood.  Thank you all for explaining all that!  :) I've been searching (I mean HOURS!) for used...

Okay at the risk of sounding really stupid, how do you determine what the tongue weight onto the tow vehicle is?  From the last couple of posts, it sounds like you can adjust how much of the weight of the trailer is resting on the tongue. (?)

Grashley, very well explained, thank you.  That was the clarification I was missing - I now see what you meant about van carrying all or 10% of added cargo.  I think my only lurking question now about this part is -- how does one know that tongue weight of any given trailer is only 10% of its...

Gary, I actually understood all of what you wrote.  I did learn what GVWR and GVCR were but I will look at the glossary because more's better.  ;-) I was looking at GMC cargo van specs, and one thing that does confuse me (not likely in glossary) is... here's a cut/paste: ?Dead Weight Hitch -...

Ahh, okay, I get it now.  Thanks!    I'm still curious about the benefit of not moving stuff from the TT into the TV to make the TV heavier and the TT lighter.  It seemed logical to want to have the TV a bit heavier and the TT lighter so the TT doesn't overpower the TV but that might be...