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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dae06 wrote:Flapper wrote:
I'm another one doing the same thing. The truck HAS to be equipped with the Max Payload package, which is different than Max Towing.
My 2012 is right at the payload number, with a very equivelent fifth. We've got over 8K on the fifth now, to all three coasts, and over some very serious mountains. Performance is fantastic. But it is always about how much the truck can carry, not about what it can pull. The newer body trucks will give a couple hundred pounds more capacity. So as long as the OP shops very carefully for the truck, and everything that it will be carrying, he can rest assured that he will be safe. But no other 1/2 ton other the F-150 with Max Payload can do it.
Add to it the huge pluses as a daily driver, and no-brainer boat towing, and the OP would have a winner - as long as he finds one with the payload package.
It really is hard finding a used truck with the max payload package. The truck that is on the lot her has:
Payload: 1,560
Towing: 8,000
GVWR: 7,350
Not the right setup.
It's hard finding a new one too. In fact as I understand it Ford didn't even make any HD payload trucks in 2015 with the frame shortage issues they had.
The other thing is if you do find one or order one, you can likely just buy an equivalent heavy duty truck for the same or less. Opinions vary but that seems to make better sense to me.
