rtazz17 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
Don't recollect anyone saying anyone HAD to own a dually...I don't have the obvious experience you have....I only know what I know from towing pop-up's, travel trailers, hilos and 5er's all through the mountains with plain old regular cars, and trucks....no big deal, been doing it for about 40 years now....No where did anyone state that you absolutely needed a dually to tow with....that's a bit ludicrous..
If I found a SRW truck that would do what I needed it to do, that would be what I would own..but I'm one of the "Weight police", you know, one of those stupid fools who actually tries to keep within his trucks GVWR....not the RAWR mind you, but the GVWR...something unheard of now a day's and stupid in most peoples thinking.
I merely stated, that towing a 16,000# 5er though the very curvy, quite steep at times, mountainous roads in WV, TN, VA and NC that I've towed in....just so happens, I towed the same 5er with both...I Merely stated that the towing experience in my infinite stupidity was more stable when cornering on these up and down, steep curvy mountains. If the weight of the 5er doesn't call for a dually, then why buy one....don't recollect many, if any stating such....but hey, you have far more experience than I, and with much, much larger equipment, I'm merely speaking from towing rv's a with a silly pick up truck, or a car or an SUV....
"sterotypical"...man I can't compete with your infinite wisdom, I bow to superiority on the subject...I merely stated if one is towing HEAVY, ie 16,000# or more in the mountains, I think a dually would offer a more stable tow, but I'm not real bright....you have a HDH, I'm not in the same class.....you win, your right because...well, you have far more experience and know much more about all this......'nuff said.
.......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.
Wow these threads really bring out the best in people.Lighten up a little bit your gonna have a stroke.
Actually, at almost 64 years of age, I'm not overweight, I know all my "numbers", exercise on day's I don't work my 12 hr shift's (closer to 14hrs, and though a Supervisor, most of my day is spent on the floor of a manufacturing plant), so, Lord willing, I won't have a stroke any time soon, but thanks for your concern, I do want to apologize for having possibly gotten your blood pressure up, (mine is 118/78), with this post...really didn't mean to subject you to such hostility...you can block me and not have to worry about this anymore:)
On prior post, it was stated that 3/4 ton, 1 ton SRW and 1 ton DRW trucks were Heavy Duty trucks. Actually, just because the manufacturer put a "badge" on the truck that said, "Heavy Duty", didn't make it so. they were considered "light duty" trucks, and the 450/4500's and up were the MDT...BUT, as also stated, with several of the 1 ton Dually's having "Medium Duty" transmission's in them now and GVWR's of 14,000# or there about's, and GCWR's out the roof...I guess the 3500 Dually of today, would surpass some of the 450/4500's of just several years ago....
Like Rick, I think the MDT's are cool, great looking trucks, but my issue is a tad worse than his, he CAN, I think he stated, get his truck in his garage....my dually sticks out of my car port that has is completely enclosed except the front, so my 1 ton dually sticks out about a foot and a half:)...
