Towing a 5th wheel with a 1/2 ton truck
I have a 27' Sportsmen 5th wheel. I am looking to buy a newer truck and will be using it for driving to work 90% of the time, pulling my boat 7% of the time and my 5th wheel 3% of the time. The 5th wh...
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SabreCanuck wrote:
Considering the OP answered the question of usage and it is so minimal it's crazy that anyone would recommend buying brand new 3/4 ton, blah, blah.
To the OP>>
To answer your question - NO it is not safe.
To answer your other question - YES considering you are moving 40 miles per year, I would buy the 1/2 ton.
BUT - nobody knows your skills like you know your skills.
let the bashing continue>>>>
That's just it. I feel it is quite a financial cost to get another Super Duty for the little I would really want/need to use it. Then again, I don't want to have something catastrophic happen either. That would be worse.
I've driven Fire trucks, water tankers with no baffles, ambulances, etc. so I been through all of the emergency driving courses, but that by no means says that something bad couldn't happen. There's a lot of people that wouldn't think twice about pulling my RV with a 1/2 ton, but I have a responsibility to be safe too.
