Glossary / General

tongue weight

11 Episode Mentions

Too Afraid to Ask

Tongue weight is how much weight is pressing down on the hitch of your truck from the trailer. It's important to have the right amount so that your truck can tow safely and easily.

Technical Definition

Tongue weight refers to the downward force that a trailer exerts on the hitch of the towing vehicle. It is typically recommended to be between 10% and 15% of the total trailer weight for safe towing.

Hear It Discussed

"...you severely limit how much the vehicle can tow because you limit payload and you limit tongue weight."
New Nissan Xterra VS Scout Traveler VS Ford Bronco VS Jeep Wrangler! | Ep. 335 TFL Car Chat 36:36

"It seems to me that my research showed that the next level of vehicle up that could carry what I saw as a 600 and twenty pound tongue weight, which would cover all three of those components,"
Car Pro Radio Show May 9 26 Hour 3 CarPro Radio Show 31:25

"we took my dad's a Mustang and we put it on his trailer, which is like a big hefty steel trailer with a wood, wood floor and like a very high tongue weight because of how the Mustang"
Episode 456: Guest Bradley Iger, Czinger 21C Supercar, 2026 Ram 2500 Tow Test, Benjamin Has A Bad Track Day, Bradley Talks Charger Take Two Unnamed Automotive Podcast 28:33