I’m going to rent a 20ft enclosed car hauler to move my daughter’s apt furniture to Fla. Do you think I need to use some sort of trailer stabilizer for this length and weight?

 

I guess you're talking weight distibution hitch. I'd say if it's only some furniture and a bed and such you won't be very heavy. make sure you've got a drop hitch that will allow the trailer to sit level. Mike

 

An equalizer hitch levels rear end sag (headlites) and also reduces sway when a semi passes you.

 

I think you are talking about sway control....

You probably won't know until you need it....

With that in mind, I'd spend the $50-$100 & do it. But, I tend to error on the side of safety A LOT.

I have it on my flatbed & only needed it when towing somethign REALLY tall...i.e. a big sail

HTH

Tony

 

I tow a 28 foot Travel trailer, an older Avion, so it is solid and heavy (for a travel trailer) Around 7500-8000 lbs.
Anyway, I use both the load equalizer (an EZ lift) and an anti sway. The lift hitch sets some of your load onto the front of the towing rig, leveling up so it is not too heavy on the rear end. It also stiffens up the ride, so you don't bounce so much on those miserable roads with a gallop (thabump,thabump,thabump...). Don't lift too much, since it takes weight off the reat tires, and can make you skid on ice. I usually drop a link or two if it is icy.
Next the antisway, keeps you tracking straight when trucks pass you. Several big rigs passing (From behind) can set you into a swaying back and forth type motion, that can jackknife you in an instant.
Tightening up the anti sway bar keeps that from happening. You would be amazed at how much air a big rig is pushing, and how much it can pull your front end out of straight and true tracking, from pushing your trailer tail end to the right, then right after the end of the truck trailer passes your hitch, the draft (suction) pulls your middle (at the hitch) to the left.
I've seen several puckup/cargo trailers, and travel trailers on the side, jacked or flipped due to this, when they didn't have adequate hitching and antisway.
As one very wise person said above: You won't know if you need it until you do! A lot of people try to leave the load equalizer out of the mix, since they think they don't need it due to their high capacity rear end (3/4 or 1ton) but it is necessary when towing a travel trailer, no matter what anyone says.
As to cargo, you will have to decide for yourself. No matter which way you decide, just make sure the truck and trailer are riding level.

 

I have a 10,000lb 26' toy hauler (really closer to 30' if you count the tongue), the kind that sticks way up in the air (bunk in back). Never had the need for sway control, and I've had it on the interstate a lot in all kinds of wind and passing big rigs. The equalizer hitch does just fine dampening the sway.