Towing Heavy 5er with SRW Truck

JEBar wrote:

NC Hauler wrote:

JEBar wrote:
our last former truck was a Chevy 3500 Dually, our current truck is Freightliner Sportchassis .... prior to them we towed with a variety of single rear wheel driver trucks .... at one time I bought into all of the stereotypical reasons why a dually was the only way to go when towing heavy campers, boats and trailers .... hundreds of thousands of miles through all of the lower 48, over the Rockies and prairies have convinced me that should I ever buy another truck for towing it will not be a dually .... it will be a late model, one ton, single rear wheel truck .... with the capabilities of the new generation of trucks, I'm convinced that the days of having to have a dually for the vast majority of campers on the market is history .... folks most certainly should go with whatever style truck best meets their needs

Jim

.......gotta ask, why are you towing such a light weight 5er with a HDH? It's far more than a dually...one should be able to tow that with a brand new 2500....just curious.

actually 3/4 and 1 ton trucks are referred to as HD trucks and our Freightliner Sportchassis is referred to as a Medium Duty truck .... go figure ??? .... the reason we moved from our 3500 to the Sportchassis had nothing to do with power .... the Chevy performed well towing our current camper with a golf cart on a trailer behind the 5er from coast to coast and border to border .... the reason was ride .... the air suspension and air ride seats in the Sportchassis absorb the pounding our bodies used to absorb from bouncing down the road .... interestingly enough, in the area of turning radius of our Sportchassis is much less than the 3500 dually .... the only times I know of where a dually is superior to a single rear wheel is in payload and as you have noted, some degree of stability .... in your bio you show Asheville, my birthplace and home for 25 years is 50 miles west of you in Sylva so I do have a good idea about the roads to which your refer .... the current generation of 1 ton trucks provide me with all of the payload capacity I need and degree of stability I'm comfortable with .... that said, its irrelevant to anyone else .... each person needs to go with the tow vehicle they are the most comfortable with

Jim