Tongue weight on 2018, 178

Well, a second battery (could be dead) and/or a second propane tank come to mind immediately.  Maybe a tongue box to store weight (jack, tools, etc.) right on the tongue. I added a 100 pound bike bunk to my tongue, (stromberg/carlson), with bikes adds about 150 pounds. 

Originally posted by mcarter Are you using a sway bar? Are you loading heavy items into front storage? You're not missing anything, but more info would be needed to supply valuable info.

Even with a sway bar, my 176 swayed all the way home from AR to NM.  I kept stopping and tightening the sway bar more and more.  Didn't seem to help.  It was a brand new empty trailer except for about 200 lbs of fresh water for camping (which is WAY behind the axel... last tank to the rear.) . I've added a second battery and am thinking about figuring out a mount for my 92 lb generator but that's going to require welding to the frame and trying to figure out how to brace it off the side of the tongue (there's no room on the tongue with two batteries and propane tank... that takes up the whole tongue... and I don't really want my new Gen outside in the rain... they aren't waterproof), but with the poor design of the Pod with the water tanks to the rear, it makes it really hard to get a proper balance.  We don't actually carry anything heavy with us to put in the storage area under the front bunk.  All we have is food and clothes.  I'm not sure what kind of weight anyone would put under the bunk, but I'm thinking about a third (fully sealed AGM... no venting) battery.  I'm also wondering if a weight-distributing hitch would help in any way?  Does anyone know if a WD hitch helps with the "bucking"/bounce of a single-axel trailer?  I don't need a WD on my full size truck, but maybe it has other properties that help tame the towing besides just distributing more weight on the front of the truck?