Took me 2 years to realize I was loading cars backwards on the trailer

I been hauling cars for a living since 2022. Always loaded them facing forward onto my open trailer because it just felt right. Last month a customer watched me strap down his Mustang and said 'you know the weight distribution is gonna shift on you at highway speed right'. I nodded like I knew but looked it up that night. Sure enough heavy end of the car should be up front near the truck. Now I have to unlearn 2 years of bad habits. Anyone else have a basic loading rule they got backwards?

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stellablack15d ago

That first time on the highway after loading a heavy truck wrong is a rough lesson. I spent a whole summer in 2021 strapping down my landscape trailer with the heavy mowers at the back, just because it was easier to load that way. First bumpy road at 55 mph taught me real quick why they tell you to keep the tongue weight heavy. You're not alone in this, it's one of those things nobody teaches you until you mess it up and get that scary sway.

adams.taylor14d ago

Read somewhere that heavy tongue weight is actually safer because it fights sway instead of causing it. That little bit of physics changed how I load everything now.