buying a 5th wheel trailers
My wife and I are about three years from retirement at which time we are going to sell our house and become full time RV's. We presently own a travel trailer that we want to upgrade to a fifth wheel ...
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etcssw wrote:
I really like the tundra so if I could I'd like to stay with it, but if we need to go with a different truck my son is recommending the Chevy 3500 with a diesel engine and allason transmission. I just don't want to be the guy in the right hand lane with his blinkers going crawling up the mountains. But I don't want to buy a semi truck to pull the trailer.
A Tundra is -not- up to pulling the large/heavy rigs we have mentioned. As for semi. Actually a large number of full-timers that pull the large/heavy 5ers (42 ft, etc) use modified MD haulers. They have the suspensions lightened (few rigs are as heavy as a semi-trailer). One of the consistent reports I see is that these MD haulers can maneuver better then a "1-ton" long-bed, crew/super/king-cab.
BTW, you will be much happier with an extended cab then a small-cab.
