OP wrote:
There is NO WAY the '19 truck with a listed 5th wheel cap can tow anywhere near the stated 21,000 pounds. ****, why not give it a 50k tow rating? 21,000 is just a meaningless arbitrary number that you'll never EVER be able to tow and stay in your weight rating!
Read Merrykalia reply closely. He is right.
There are 21k lb trailers out here that a 350/3500 SRW can tow safely/legally. Ford/Ram and GM tow ratings aren't just for a RV type trailers like we use but all types and sizes of trailers.
I have a 36' 16k tri axle GN stock trailer. It has several interior gates for loading small stuff in the front and large heavy animals over the trailer axles and small stuff out back. That way I can keep my 2500 truck under its 6000 rawr. Same with my flatdeck trailers. I can load freight on the deck to keep under the trucks rawr.
I hauled commercially with mostly one ton DRW trucks. Today we see a whole lot more one ton SRW truck on the road towing commercially with some large GN flatdeck/enclosed trailers legally and safely.
How do they do it ??
In this type of work if were looking for a one ton srw truck we look for the one with the biggest RAWR as its carrying part of our "PAY" load. The trailer carries the biggest part of our "PAY" load.
Also in this type of work the GVWR or its payload sticker isn't used for any purpose. Hell our older trucks didn't have a payload sticker as it didn't become mandatory till the '06 era for all trucks to be placarded although some mfg were using the sticker prior to that date.
The F350 SRW has eleven different GVWR numbers and three RAWR numbers. Ford markets several trucks with two different gvwr/rawr/payload numbers for the same exact truck per fleet Ford specs.
Example is a crew cab 4x4 6.7 diesel 176 wb truck. We can get it with a 11500 gvwr and 3760 payload.....or a 10000 gvwr and 2260 payload. Both trucks mechanical specs per fleet Ford are identical.
I keep posting this just to show how silly a gvwr based payload number can be.
Stay under fawr/rawr and the truck/you/all on the highways/bus load of kids and nuns/POTUS will all be safe.
