What size truck?
I recently bought a King of the Road 36ft 5th wheel. It is a triple axle, and weighs about 13K. What size truck should I realistically be looking at getting to pull it?
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ohmymy111 wrote:
Thanks for all the replies!!I weighed the front axle, and rear axle of the truck I was pulling with, and then weighed the camper. Then later weighed just the truck and subtracted that out of the gross weight I had, and had just over 13K. I have a F350 with a 7.3l SRW. I was concerned it might be too small, but consensus seems that it will be fine. I didn't want to state what I had, as to avoid a possible bias. In addition, I have upgraded the tranny cooler to the 6.0l tranny, and run a scangauge 2 to monitor all my temps.
That is likely a very nice 5er. We bought a 1986 28' King that needed the last 6' of the floor needed to be replaced. Once that was done we really enjoyed that 5er, it was beautiful inside, and looked good outside also.
If the 5er was loaded when you weighed you should be good to go.
