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My experience over the years always has been that a front-loaded caravan was much more stable, both during normal towing and in situations where wind or passing traffic was an issue.
We had a policy of only loading bedding in the back end, and everything else went over the axle and forwards.
I had to be able to pick the jockey wheel up off the floor as well, we didn't have a loading gauge in those days.
The principal goes for almost eveything we have towed, up to 3.5 tonnes maximum weight, and including general trailers, car trailers and box trailers.
Keep the weight forwards, away from the very rear, keep the heaviest weight over the axle or JUST in front, and that usually means piling it on the floor.
Gauges are great things, but your own senses will give you a better feel for whether or not it's going to be a 'mare on the roads.
We are out of all that now, our drawbar trailer imposes only about 25kg static loading on the towbar so the attitude of the vehicle is not affected.
Dynamic loads are of course much higher, but we lose the vertical jarring that we got with a twin-axle trailer or van, just a bit of forwards/backwards stuff, mainly due to the wheelbase of the trailer changing as the suspension goes up and down.
Peter
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Topic: Maximum draw bar weight
