Weight Rating Spreadsheet

valhalla360 wrote:
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 trailer info and it spits out the results.

Thought I would plug for jerem0621 calculator that covers GCWR/GVWR more importantly the GAWRs before weight cops and their self righteous comments get your thread closed.
https://forums.woodalls.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/28204130/srt/pa/pging/1/page/4.cfm.

Fifth Wheel St has an online calculator and mobile apps, too.

I bought a 2012 F250 new. no need to pull anything but my 7,000lb car trailer with my show truck in it.

We changed our minds and decided we wanted to FW for a while.
I wasn't comfortable with the capacity of the 250 for what we wanted to tow. I traded the 250 for a same year dually with 1/2 the miles. (13,000 down to 6,000).. cost me $3000 to change. I added a 60 gal extra fuel tank too.

don't have any worries about towing now.
Only thing I miss is the black interior

edbehnke wrote:
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.

I don't think folks are overthinking.
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

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.

valhalla360, PM me (or anyone else for that matter) with an e-mail address and I'm happy to shoot you what I developed. It is not for the faint of heart and is best if you are comfortable with spreadsheets. I have a table with my weights over time, math embedded to do calculations, % of capacity, conditional formatting to turn cells green or red, etc. I'm happy to share.

Best calculator/spreadsheet is from towingplanner... Go to top to tools menu and pic out what you like. 5th wheel, travel trailer....etc...

Remember you need catscale weights, or individual axle weights....

Towingplanner.com

Here is a link that I think is what you are talking about
http://changingears.com/rv-sec-calc-trailer-weight-fw.shtml