I need a sway control hitch. I tow on a plain ball hitch. Fine at 60mph on flat land but if you push over 65mph, or the tow vehicle is tracking slower than the trailer (downhill) sway is an issue.
I mostly stay in the northern half of Indiana up through the southern half of Michigan. Hills and speed are not an issue. But this trip where we met some actual mountains (small, but significant to a flatlander) said I gotta drop some bucks on a proper setup. 6,500lbs flailing about behind the truck is no joke. Had to manually engage trailer brakes several times to straighten out on the downhill sections. My HD pickup usually doesn't care, but at speed with semis rushing, it got hairy. My open car trailer with a 12k gross weight behaves just fine, but the slabsided camper drives the truck a lot more
Zoo tomorrow. Hopefully people were scared off by the forecast of thunderstorms. Current forecast is clear, but yesterday they were still saying storms. I HATE crowds and really wanted to push it back to Monday but wife *might* have things to do Tuesday so gotta stick with it.
It's a good 7-8 hours drive home from here, with the camper, without sway control, with mountain downhill. Not sure I've got the stuff to do it in one stretch. Planning route home through two Indiana state parks but it makes the drive 9 hours. I'm hoping to stop and overnight instead of going straight through.