How do I Improve Ride Comfort When Towing a 39' Travel Trailer with a 2025 F-350?  

I have a 2022 F250 short bed with the Air Lift system, I pull a 36’ bumper pull. The Blue Ox hitch takes the bounce out, work ok and a lot easier to set up and use than the Equal I zer hitch I used to have. I wished I had tried the BW hitch but wasn’t sure about it.

Have used the Blue Ox hitch for 2 years over 12K miles. It is easy to install and set up. Hitching the trailer is easy too, just lock the tongue closed on hitch ball and raise the trailer/vehicle a bit using the jack stand. This takes a lot of spring out of the bars and makes them easy to engage. Do the same thing prior to disengaging the bars. Wear gloves for this process and it is safe. Have used the Blue Ox exclusively to pull a 37 Toy Hauler with empty weight of 10,800 lb. Has 100 gallon fresh water tank can easily be closer to 12, 000 lb. Tongue weight is 1100-1200 lb. The trailer pulls good with no significant sway in everything but the worst cross winds (i.e. over 35-40 mph). On windy days especially, I might also notice a slight pull from a passing truck, but this is actually pretty rare. Truck is 2021 Chevy 3500 crew cab, long box. I did add TorkLift Stabile Rides on upper and lower overloads in the rear. I put on the TorkLift hardware because that truck sometimes carries a truck camper instead of the trailer. But I think it helps any time you are really loaded. When unloaded, I essentially have factory suspension and ride. Overall a very good experience. In the north US winter highways are bumpy due to buckling right now ... those are going to be rough no matter what. My buddy has air bags with a similar rig and those bags seem to make the ride even worse.

I have a 27' trailer that I pull with a 2025 GMC 3500 long bed (four door). The Blue Ox has worked really well for me. The biggest thing that I had to do was switch to the bolt-on mount because the trailer tongue is an open C-channel, it is not boxed. I also checked my tongue weight, but I used a different approach than Kate. At a Cat scale I weighed the truck front axle, rear axle, and both trailer axles with weight distribution engaged (so I had three weights). Then I weighed all three with the weight distribution disengaged. Finally, I weighed just the truck axles. This allowed me to see the tongue weight and how much weight I was shifting to the truck front axle. I the purchased a tongue weight scale from etrailer and checked the absolute tongue weight. This hitch is awesome. I have only had a bit of sway when hauling in 40-50 mph cross winds. I can easily back the trailer into any space without disengaging the weight distribution. And this hitch is quiet, presumably because the spring bar mounts on the hitch are lubricated with grease. No binding either.

Make sure when installing any type of sway control and pulling with a new truck from about 2020 and newer that you turn the sway control off in the truck. These new trucks will have built in sway control and it will make the sway control fight with each other and make it way worse.

My 32 foot (38 with the extended hitch) cargo car hauler was a nightmare to pull without any type of sway control. The blue ox hitch was the answer to absolute control while towing. I highly recommend it. 2022 Ford F250 SRW 4x4