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C-Bears
Jan 12, 2015Explorer
I think you will have plenty of truck for that trailer, but you actually will not know until you are loaded and you visit the scales. If you want to know for sure and be exact then you need to weigh your truck first (loaded with fuel and passengers for the road). Then hook up and take your combination over the scales. There are easy formulas you can then use to get all your numbers in an easy to understand format, plus you will have your exact pin percent.
I have a SRW 1-ton short box. There is another guy that is also full time, tows my exact same model/year fiver, but has a DRW 1-ton long bed. Our weights are different, for example his pin weight is more than mine.
My point here is you have to actually weigh your units before you know if you are within limits. We can all guess, which based on what you have posted it looks like you would be okay, but it is still a guess.
I have a SRW 1-ton short box. There is another guy that is also full time, tows my exact same model/year fiver, but has a DRW 1-ton long bed. Our weights are different, for example his pin weight is more than mine.
My point here is you have to actually weigh your units before you know if you are within limits. We can all guess, which based on what you have posted it looks like you would be okay, but it is still a guess.
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