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We are looking to upgrade to a fifth wheel. We currently have a hybrid travel trailer and have been camping for better then a decade. Last year we bought a Ram 2500 with the 6.7 Cummins diesel. It sho...
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heffnerfam wrote:
The durango gold that we looked at has a hitch weight of 2250, which is less then the 2500 my Ram is rated at. Am I missing something? GVWR is 9200 lbs approx. So long as I don't exceed the GVWR I should be ok...right.
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Dry hitch weight will go up, a lot when loaded. I mean none of us camp in empty trailers. Most of the storage in these trailers is up front. That means that at least half the weight of the stuff you put in the front storage bay goes on the pin. Near all of what goes in the front closet is pin weight. Our little Mountaineer runs a scaled loaded pin weight over 2680lb, 25% of total weight. That would max you out. Our 05 DRW doesn't have a lot left after the DW & I, the dog, fire wood, hitch and the junk I carry around in the toolbox. If we ever loaded this trailer to it's 14400lb GVWR we would go over the 11400lb truck GVWR. Even using the RAWR (rear axle weight rating) your going to be real close, if not over.
