Fifth wheel towing/truck capacity
Here's the story. We are looking at getting a new TH fiver. We currently have a Sabre fiver that weighs 12,300 lbs loaded. I know from catscale we have typically added 1500 lbs of stuff to our tt a...
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rhagfo wrote:Second Chance wrote:
Forget max towing capacity. With a single rear wheel truck (which I assume from your 3,320 lbs. payload capacity), you will reach the rear axle capacity long before you max out on towing capacity. Use 25% of the trailer's GVWR to estimate loaded pin weight. If that number is more than what you have left for rear axle capacity (don't forget the weight of the hitch, too), it's too much trailer/not enough truck. A 16K fifth wheel will put about 4,000 lbs. on the pin when loaded - too much for a single rear wheel truck.
Rob
Did you
Totally read and understand what the OP was asking?
If the 5er one is looking at has a huge paylaod that you will only use less than half of.
I say the OP has good logic, it is not always the GVWR of the 5er being towed, but the actual towed weigh. He may have a good match for hi TV.
Perhaps not as carefully as I should have - but published sticker weights are notorious for being light. If he can keep the weights to what he projects, he'll be OK.
Rob
