Pete C. wrote:

Weight shifts to the front with or without cargo under heavy braking,
and any cargo weight in the rear still adds traction weight over no
cargo. Stopping distances are always shorter for a pickup when a camper
is loaded for example.

Have you ever driven a pickup loaded with a camper comming down a
good long grade. The brakes fade and if there isn't a good place to
get off youre sunk.
You are full of it.
What you say may be true for the first couple of hundred lbs. but
for the loads this thread is about. Pure and simple.
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