1. Your Direction

One of the most important aspects to consider while driving with a trailer is the route you intend to take to your location. There are a few situations and natural occurrences in which you should have a trailer sway control.

Roads with Strong winds 

While it is difficult to anticipate weather patterns such as storms, some areas of the country are particularly susceptible to extreme winds. If you're driving down the highway through the desert and big gusts of wind come your way, your vehicle may have difficulty keeping the heavyweight in the rear aligned.

Endless Winding Roads

Tight corners provide additional possibility for body rolls and weight shifting to the outside tire. Curves and turns on narrow roads are common on hilly trips. This is especially dangerous if you lose control of your trailer due to the mountain or approaching traffic, as it is normally one lane each way.

2. Your Vehicle

It's also important to recognize what your tow vehicle is capable of. Staying within the towing guidelines of your tow vehicle will allow the vehicle to handle a challenging situation better.

When towing your trailer for the first time, gently accelerate while monitoring the trailer since swaying or oscillation intensifies as speed increases, especially if the trailer is poorly loaded.

While many RVrs still choose the cheaper option because they feel they may get something similar for less money, they must be corrected. Cheaper alternatives do not completely solve the problem. They only reduce sway, they do not eliminate it.

The ProPride 3P® Jim Hensley Hitch is the most advanced and the only trailer sway-eliminating hitch ever created. It is a Pivot Point Projection hitch or also referred to as a sway-control hitch that works completely differently. This is because while in tow, the ProPride 3P® (Pivot Point Projection) projects your trailer's pivot point to the rear axle, which eliminates trailer sway in any situation.

Here’s Sean to tell you how does a Jim Hensley hitch works:

Unit Base Weight (UBW) is the dry weight of the base unit without options. Prior to having anything put inside of it, this is how much your RV weighed when it rolled off the assembly line.

Tongue Weight is the amount of weight a travel trailer’s tongue places on the hitch it is mounted to. Because the hitch is affixed to the tow vehicle's frame, going over the tongue weight limit will push the tow vehicle's rear down and reduce the amount of weight on the front axle. As a result, steering becomes challenging, traction may be lost, and stopping becomes dangerous.

Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR) is the manufacturer's recommended maximum loaded weight for your tow vehicle or RV. GVWR accounts for the combined weight of the vehicle, its cargo, and its occupants. Being over the GVWR poses significant risks as it makes the vehicle hard to control, slow down, or stop.

Gross Trailer Weight (GTW) differs from Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW). It's the entire weight of your trailer when it's fully loaded and ready to go. Simply put, it is frequently the max load that your trailer will be able to carry on the road.

Max Towing Capacity: the max weight your engine can handle *DO NOT exceed this max weight*

Unloaded Vehicle Weight is comparable to the dry weight. It is the weight of a tow vehicle when it is shipped from the factory.

Gross Axle Weight Rating is the maximum weight that may be safely placed on one axle of a vehicle, provided that weight is distributed evenly. It also contains the axle's own weight. It is sometimes abbreviated to GAWR, as are the other terms in this section.

Gross Combination Weight Rating is the maximum operating weight of a towing vehicle and the trailer it is towing. It is simply a combination of the Gross Vehicle Weight and the Gross Trailer Weight.