Need weight verification Please!

mike.filby wrote:
This is not the only place I have asked this question. I have also asked people who carry heavy loads and that obviously understand these trucks better than most. And most of the heavy haulers that know these trucks say yes it is heavy but the truck can handle it. For those that say do the math, show me a formula or an online calculator that will give me the numbers to prove who is right or wrong. I have searched and searched and can not find one. I understand your caution and frustration, but there seems to be a lot of confusion on the 5th wheel hitch weight towing capacities of trucks. Most don't know and just buy a bigger truck as a precaution. As I have understood it for years, once you go to a triple axle, you have to have a dully. Yes weight still has a factor in all this. So please provide me with some documentation to prove me and others wrong. Again, thank you all for your input. As much as you think I have ignored it, I did take it into consideration.

No complex math formula needed...just simple arithmetic---adding/subtracting

And that method has been discussed and posted already


But I have a quick and easy hands on method for you..........just read it in another post concerning F250 towing/payload

GO to Big Box Lumber/Hardware store.
Purchase 3400# of sand in bags. Have store load them into your truck bed.
Drive around for a week carrying that load in bed of truck.
Take a trip across some Scales and weigh truck.

:E :S

3400# is the DRY weight of that 5th wheel and will only increase as you load trailer for camping..

Hold onto sand purchase receipt so you can return the sand


Otherwise ........just take the advice of that performance shop