Fifth-wheel Questions.
Our rving needs have changed. It looks like we will be living 2-3 months out of the yr in a camper. We are looking at fifth-wheels. We wanted to stay around 35 ft. Weight wise was a round 10K pou...
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grizz272 wrote:
........ For the ones that I thought were large 60% were SRW. It appeared to me that the older rigs were pulled by DRW and the newer ones by SRW. I was surprised at how many 3/4 ton pickups that were towing big fifth-wheels.
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The manufacturers boost the payload ratings just about every year, so a newer truck will have a higher load rating than the same truck of several years earlier. Of course, many people simply exceed the truck rating, knowingly or not.
There should be a tire and loading tag on the drivers side door post with something like "cargo and people should not exceed xxxx pounds".
