Published figures that disagree

A towable trailer publishes three weights that have to agree. The dry weight is what it leaves the factory weighing. The cargo capacity is what you are allowed to add. The GVWR is the maximum it may weigh loaded. Add the first two and you should get the third exactly. Of the 1,096 floorplan pages on this site where all three are published, 1,086 close to the pound and 10 do not. Of the 753 model-year records where all three are published, 712 close and 41 do not. This page lists every one that does not, every plan refused a page for the same reason, and every published hitch weight that cannot be physically right, so they are findable in one place. It is rebuilt from the site’s dataset on every build.

01 · Why these are not quietly fixed

There is always an obvious repair. If dry weight plus cargo capacity comes to sixty-five pounds more than the stated GVWR, you could shave the cargo figure by sixty-five pounds and every number would line up. It would also be a number no manufacturer ever published, presented in a table of numbers that they did.

So the rule on this site is that a conflict gets printed, not resolved. Where a floorplan or a model year has its own page, the disagreement appears on that page beside the weights, with both totals spelled out. Where the printed GVWR misses the other two figures by more than 100 lb, the page still publishes, but shows that GVWR as “Disputed” and gives no rating or tow check for it. Only where the published figures cannot be used at all is a floorplan catalogued from its published specifications and given no page; it appears in its line’s roster table with the factory figures and a note saying why there is nothing to click.

02 · Floorplan pages that publish a conflict

These 10 have full floorplan pages. Each carries the disagreement on the page itself, next to the weights. The gap column is how far the manufacturer’s own dry weight plus cargo capacity overshoots (+) or undershoots (−) the GVWR it also published. The largest here is −3,000 lb on the 2026 Palomino Puma Vista 423LFT.

† Printed by the maker, but more than 100 lb out of line with its own dry weight plus cargo capacity. Under this site’s rule the page shows that GVWR as “Disputed” and gives no rating or tow check for it: the GVWR on the trailer’s own label governs. 3 of the rows above are marked.

‡ The maker’s cargo capacity is printed below its GVWR minus its dry weight, and the same document defines cargo capacity as “equal to or less than GVWR minus UVW”, so by its own definition the three figures do not contradict each other. The page gives that GVWR as a rating and says to plan the load to the published cargo capacity, the lower figure; the trailer’s own label governs. 1 of the rows above are marked.

03 · Model-year records that publish a conflict

A model-year record records the figures a manufacturer published for one year of a floorplan. These 41 do not tie out for that year. Each prints the disagreement in its year’s section of the floorplan page. The largest is −775 lb on the 2020 Jayco Jay Flight SLX 265RLS.

† Printed by the maker, but more than 100 lb out of line with its own dry weight plus cargo capacity. Under this site’s rule the page shows that GVWR as “Disputed” and gives no rating or tow check for it: the GVWR on the trailer’s own label governs. 20 of the rows above are marked.

‡ The maker’s cargo capacity is printed below its GVWR minus its dry weight, and the same document defines cargo capacity as “equal to or less than GVWR minus UVW”, so by its own definition the three figures do not contradict each other. The page gives that GVWR as a rating and says to plan the load to the published cargo capacity, the lower figure; the trailer’s own label governs. 7 of the rows above are marked.

04 · Catalogued only, no page published

These 0 are listed in their line’s roster with the factory figures, and deliberately have no floorplan page. Every other plan once listed here — 7 of them — now has a page that publishes its conflict, and appears in section 02.

Rockwood Signature 301SRK has left this list. Until October 2026 Forest River’s floorplan page printed its cargo capacity as 7,523 lb, the same figure to the pound as its dry weight, so it was catalogued here with no page of its own. Forest River has since revised the figure to 2,440 lb (read 21 Oct 2026), and the plan now has its own page, which states both readings. Forest River’s Flagstaff Classic roster still printed 7,523 lb as the cargo capacity of the same plan’s twin, the 301CRK, when read on 22 Oct 2026 — again its own dry weight to the pound; the same trailer, different name comparison shows that figure flagged, not as a usable cargo capacity.

Cedar Creek 380RB2 (2027) is catalogued, not published. Forest River’s floorplan page, read 24 Oct 2026, prints an unloaded weight of 14,984 lb and a cargo capacity of 2,896 lb, which add to 17,880 lb, against a printed GVWR of 18,000 lb: 120 lb apart, more than the 100 lb past which this site treats a rating as disputed. The plan is listed on the Cedar Creek hub without figures, and gets a page when Forest River’s figures agree.

05 · Published hitch weights that cannot be right

A published hitch or pin weight (labelled dry or not, as its maker prints it) is checked against the same record’s dry weight. On the 2,368 floorplan and model-year records that publish both, a travel trailer’s tongue weight below 5% or above 25% of its dry weight, or a fifth wheel’s pin weight below 10% or above 35%, is treated as a figure that cannot be physically right. Each one found was re-read at its source; these 2 are what the manufacturer prints.

They are printed as published, with the arithmetic on each page above its spec table. They are left out of the hitch ranges, medians and ratios on the tow matcher and what makers publish pages, out of the tow matcher’s payload check, and out of the loaded-hitch tow blocks; the dataset marks each with a hitch_weight_flag.

06 · Other published figures that cannot be right

Two more screens run on every record. An exterior height at or below the same record’s interior height cannot be right: the floor, chassis and roof sit between the two (899 records publish both). A fresh-water tank under 0.25 gallons per foot of the trailer’s own length is treated the same way (2,388 records publish both). Each one found was re-read from the saved copy of its source; these 7 are what the manufacturer prints.

They are printed as published, with a note on each page above its spec table, and left out of the height and tank ranges and medians this site publishes; the dataset marks each with an exterior_height_flag or fresh_water_flag.

07 · Where two of the maker’s own documents disagree

A different kind of contradiction. Here the maker has printed the same figure twice, in two of its own documents (two brochures, a brochure and its website, two sell sheets) or twice in one, with different values, and does not say which one is current. Neither is chosen. Where a field is withheld, the page’s table carries neither figure and the page sets out both. Where a figure is shown beside the table, the table carries one document’s figure, the page says which and why, and the other is printed next to it. 31 pages:

08 · What to do with a trailer on this list

Treat the published GVWR as the binding number and ignore the cargo figure, because GVWR is the rating the axles, tyres and brakes were engineered around and it is the number on the federal certification label on the trailer itself — unless it is marked † above, where the printed GVWR is itself in doubt and only that label can settle it. Cargo capacity is arithmetic done afterwards, and it is the figure that drifts — except where a row is marked ‡: there the maker defines its cargo capacity as at or below GVWR minus dry weight, so plan the load to the published cargo capacity, the lower figure. Where the hitch figure is the one flagged, it cannot be used to size a hitch or a tow vehicle’s payload at all.

Then weigh the trailer, and its tongue or pin. A public scale settles what no brochure can: what your specific unit, with its options and dealer-installed extras, actually weighs. Every trailer on this site would benefit from that. The ones on this page need it.

Finally, check the label rather than the listing. The certification label carries the GVWR and the axle ratings as built. Where it disagrees with anything published here or anywhere else, the label wins: it describes your trailer, and the brochure describes a model.

09 · How this list is maintained

Every floorplan and model-year record is checked by arithmetic each time the site is rebuilt: dry weight plus cargo capacity against published GVWR, to the pound. Pages whose GVWR is derived rather than published are left out of that check, because a derived figure is calculated from the other two and always agrees with itself. The hitch check runs on the same build. The build fails if any page on this list does not print its own disagreement.

Nothing is removed from this list by being re-examined; an entry is only removed when the manufacturer publishes a corrected figure, and then the correction is what gets recorded.

Related: how every figure on this site is verified · what dry weight, GVWR and cargo capacity actually mean · the full dataset