Towing a 13,500 dry weight 5er?
The salesman told me that we could use an F250 and that we did not need a dually to tow this trailer. I would think that we would need an F350 dually?
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I would say it depends on if you have a truck now or not. I have a 2001 F250 super duty extended cab with a long bed.I bought new. When I say long bed, I mean a 8 foot bed.It has the 7.3 diesel. My 5th wheel is a 2006 Carriage that lacks 1 inch to be 36 feet long. Weighing on a truck scale fully loaded for a trip. That includes full of water.It weighs a fraction over 14,700 lbs. Of that, 3100 lbs is hitch weight. The only difference between my 3/4 ton and a 1 ton single wheel truck is the suspension . I have Hellwig helper springs on the rear and my truck will haul more in the bed before it squats then a factory single wheel 1 ton. This does not change the official truck rating on the door. In the bed I have a 25K air safe hitch that you have to have a fork lift to put in, if you put it in already assembled. Behind the cab I have a genbox generator. Which is in a diamond plated toolbox with a 12 gallon fuel tank. In front of the tailgate is a 37 gallon diamond platted fuel tank. When I am hitched up , you can look at the side of my truck and it is still a fraction above level. It pulls my 5th wheel just fine. I had the truck before I bought the 5th wheel. I had a cab over on it before I retired. Even though the rating on the truck has not changed on paper. If I had gotten rid of this truck and spent money and bought a 1 ton SRW. It would not have done better then the set up I have now with handling my RV. So everything depends on if you have a truck now.
