Do what you feel comfortable with but... We fulltime and see things go on all over the country. Overloaded and unsafe is a pretty common occurrence. We see folks with the newer trucks with SRW and if you watch them, you can see the difference. We see trucks squatting with too much pin weight all the time. Please keep in mind the safety of your family and others when you're pulling. Yes, we could have stayed with the Chev 3500 DRW when I was still working but in our minds we wanted to be safer yet when we retired and went fulltime on the road. That is why we went bigger yet with the C5500. It was cheaper than a new truck and is a whole lot more stable that the 3500. Stay safe...