Load the car or the caravan?

I suppose it's easier on the way home with a new van. You just have to convince your lovely other half that you need to buy a load more new gear from the accessory shop to ballast the van out correctly for safety reasons.

Colin

We generally  put anything heavy in the car. Otherwise our packing regime is if it is used in the caravan  it travels in the caravan.  Otherwise it goes in the car so the van floor is not cluttered and we can easily stop en route for lunch  if necessary.

So, in the van we have clothes, bedding, towels, toiletries, fridge food, day to day stuff like tea, coffee and cereals, pots,  plates and cutlery.  Some paperwork and bits and pieces in the front drawers, under the front seats are a few catering items such as a lightweight small electric oven and an electric cooking pot.   

Under the bed we have any bulky  but lightweight stuff, spare toilet rolls, and our bread machine.

Front locker has the gas bottles and the wastemaster, and a few pipes for using serviced pitches.

We do have a large payload available .

In the car, with back seat down, we have the awning, EHU cable, leg winder,  levelling boards and blocks, outside tables and chairs, Aquaroll, coolbox, a box for any heavy food items such as a few tins , and stuff like my camera, binoculars, and i-pads.

+1, sound safety point that is sometimes overlooked until too late👍🏻. I load my vehicle to the roof. 

I would never put gas bottles in the car for safety reasons.

Other than that, we would carry the bulk of stuff in the caravan to achieve a reasonable nose weight. I don’t like a light nose weight so tend to keep it within about 10% (below). Whatever can’t then travel in the van, due to payload and nose weight went in the boot. A trip to the weighbridge is well worth it, IMHO. 

With the meagre user paylosd of most caravans these days, it is really easy to overload the caravan.  For tbis reason, we tend to carry lots of stuff in the car.  Fortunatly, we have a large car and when ee go away in tbe caravan tbere are only the two of us and a small dog....

David

It’s a land rover are you sure