Towing Heavy 5er with SRW Truck

Cummins12V98 wrote:

transamz9 wrote:

NC Hauler wrote:

ependydad wrote:

ependydad wrote:

travisgsf wrote:
Do you feel in control?

I'll be shocked if anyone who is currently towing over their ratings admits to not feeling in control (regardless of what they actually feel). You'll get a lot of folks saying, "tows just fine" and "barely know it's back there".

You'll get a handful of responses saying they used to pull with a 2500 or SWR or whatever and upgraded to a dually and claim a "night and day difference".

And you'll get a few of us who have only pulled with a dually telling you we can't imagine towing with less.

(shrugs)

5 pages and so far I've been right. :D

I didn't call out the bickering between the groups. These threads always bring that out in folks!

Guess I fall into the group that HAS towed the same 5er with both SRW and then Dually, BUT, never stated, difference was "night and day", but have stated, based on towing on mountainous, curvy roads, I could tell a difference in stability of the towing experience. Towing same 5er seemed to be a more stable tow...but I rarely tow on "Level" ground, so I'm basing again, on mountainous, curvy roads.

I too have towed with both srw and drw. I'm sure we have different driving styles but I like the way my srw handles better than my drw. I also tow in mountainous terrain in Tenn and Eastern Ky.

I use my trailer brake controller with my hand so that eliminates any trailer push in turns. Also, did your srw have the same sway bars as the drw trucks that you have had? That has more of an effect on control than drw's.

How much of a difference in year was the swr than the dwr that you changed to?

WOW if you have to hand control your brake controller for any reason but intentionally locking the trailers brakes you have the wrong brake controller!

You said "I use my trailer brake controller with my hand so that eliminates any trailer push in turns" that sounds like too much trailer for the truck to me.

I can say I have never felt any trailer push with 18K+ behind me. Even on California highways 101 and 1.

I have an older controller that is a time delay unit. I don't have to run it by hand, I just do it because I like the control of it that way. I run with it on max and you know that controllers like mine are impossible to drive in stop and go traffic through towns on max. The time delay is either set too fast or too slow for the ever changing driving conditions. In my line of work I have installed about all the different styles of brake controllers on our trucks and this is what works best for me.

My company truck (F350 drw) has the factory controller and it is nice but it still don't work as well in all conditions.