Is our truck sufficient
We are new to camping. We purchased a 39.5 foot fifth wheel last fall. We also bought a brand new Ford 250 Super Duty Diesel. Now we are hearing conflicting advice on weather or not our truck is suffi...
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Swit9 wrote:
Thanks, those are the same numbers we have in our manual. Won't be hauling water but yes it's close. Guess we have a decision. Bigger truck or smaller fifth we wheel.
Sounds like a good plan.
If you keep the truck, hit the scales with a full tank of fuel and all passengers and stuff you will have in the truck. Subtract from your GVWR from the scaled weight and that will tell you what's left for pin weight. Approx 20% of trailer weight is carried in the bed. Take the trailers GVWR and 20% truck payload should give you an accurate weight for the new trailer.
If you keep the trailer definitely go with DRW. The SRW 1 ton is still going to be overloaded in most configurations i.e.: diesel and crew cab.
Sucks to learn lessons the hard way, you are certainly not the first.
