5th Wheel with no dually truck
Greetings, my wife and I are in the early stage of being Seniors and are in the planning stage and intend on purchasing a RV (5th Wheel?) by spring of '21. We do intend on traveling across country and...
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ACZL wrote:
1 ton SRW will handle anything w/ ease under 15k. No need for DRW in the senerio you spoke of.
Yes, but it must be a properly equipped SRW, Go back a few years and they will not have enough payload capacity.
On the newer truck, look for the yellow sticker on the drivers door jamb. It will provide the payload capacity of that particular truck. With the paylaod capacity, you can add the trailer loaded pin weight plus the hitch, plus passengers, plus any cargo to get your total payload. This total must be lower than the payload on the sticker.
You can use this method or weigh the truck and get the base line numbers.
Ken
