Weight Rating Spreadsheet
Anyone develop a weight rating spreadsheet? There is a constant flood of questions of "can I tow this?" It should be pretty simple to set up a spreadsheet where you enter the door jam info and the ...
Forum Discussion
edbehnke wrote:I don't think folks are overthinking.
I am a 5th wheeler and it seems to me that people are overthinking what they can tow.
take a look around you, 95% of the trucks pulling 5th wheels are 3/4 ton. my opinion is, unless you are pulling a 15K ton or larger (like a designer suite), just use a 3/4 ton or one ton.
What I do believe is that there is a gradual realization out there that CARRYING capacity is just as important as (if not more important than) towing capacity for a fifth wheel.
Then there are the two camps...
1) Those that do not believe in manufacturer load ratings
and
2) Those that do.
I'm in the second category and am loaded to within 200# of my truck GVWR with a 27' 9600# fiver.
I don't believe a typical 3/4 ton is adequate for a 15000# fiver. Not many 3/4 tons have 3000# of payload left AFTER being loaded with people, "stuff", hitch and fuel.
IMHO a 15K fiver is verging on dually 1-ton territory.
YMMV
