What truck do I need to pull this trailer
Hello guys. I'm looking for some assistance. My husband our three kids and myself are looking to take the family on a trip of a lifetime around North America. We have decided on a fifth wheel or toy ...
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Couple of things to think about. Toy haulers have a high dry pin weight. I think some of that pin weight can be nullified by how you load the toy hauler space. I would go to the forum of the model you want and see if this is true for your model and see if anyone has real world weights.
I have a 2018 Ram CTD CC SRW HO with a 3825 lb payload. My Creek started out at 12,800 lbs and I run about 14,500lbs w a GVWR of 16,200 lbs. If you don’t want to worry about weights, you have to buy a dually. That would be my guess because you’ll want to take everything and the kitchen sink on that kind of trip. Don’t buy and old dually. Some of the old ones have less payload than my 2018.
I have a 46 gallon aux tank. I can go about 750 miles towing. 1400 miles not towing. These are indispensable for a trip out west. Your going to be stopping every 250 miles to fill up and that can be problematic out west.
With a slider hitch for a short bed and the tank that’s an extra 600 lbs. I’m running 3400 lbs payload, that’s w no water, no washer dryer and only stuff we need packed.
Another suggestion would be to look at a fiver that is the same layout but starts at 11,000 lbs. or even look at a bumper pull toy hauler.
I also run 295/70R18 tires that have a 4080 lb rating versus 3640 stock. The stock rear tires take a lot of wear at higher pin weights and these tires are 2 inches wider which distribute the weight better.
Sounds like an awesome trip. You have to get the right truck to make this trip worry free.
Also talking to my dealer today, supply of trucks is way down because of covid. Dealers are asking top dollar fir the trucks they have. Used heavy duty trucks are at an al time high fir a low mileage one.
Check out Kernersville Ram in NC.
I have a 2018 Ram CTD CC SRW HO with a 3825 lb payload. My Creek started out at 12,800 lbs and I run about 14,500lbs w a GVWR of 16,200 lbs. If you don’t want to worry about weights, you have to buy a dually. That would be my guess because you’ll want to take everything and the kitchen sink on that kind of trip. Don’t buy and old dually. Some of the old ones have less payload than my 2018.
I have a 46 gallon aux tank. I can go about 750 miles towing. 1400 miles not towing. These are indispensable for a trip out west. Your going to be stopping every 250 miles to fill up and that can be problematic out west.
With a slider hitch for a short bed and the tank that’s an extra 600 lbs. I’m running 3400 lbs payload, that’s w no water, no washer dryer and only stuff we need packed.
Another suggestion would be to look at a fiver that is the same layout but starts at 11,000 lbs. or even look at a bumper pull toy hauler.
I also run 295/70R18 tires that have a 4080 lb rating versus 3640 stock. The stock rear tires take a lot of wear at higher pin weights and these tires are 2 inches wider which distribute the weight better.
Sounds like an awesome trip. You have to get the right truck to make this trip worry free.
Also talking to my dealer today, supply of trucks is way down because of covid. Dealers are asking top dollar fir the trucks they have. Used heavy duty trucks are at an al time high fir a low mileage one.
Check out Kernersville Ram in NC.
