This is an answer I have to weight of everything.
I have a 2008 Dodge crew 2500 HD, 6 speed with OD auto, factory installed exhaust brake and I added 2 leaf springs to both sides.
My trailer is a 2011 FW Open Range 413RLL, (the 413 is the square feet of living space in the trailer), GVWR 14,165, 39'-9" long with 4 slides, bedroom up front and another one in the back with a couch and loft plus a wet bath. I have a full bath up front with a tub. They kept the weight down by using cables for the slide instead of the steel tubes saving 200 pounds for each slide. This trailer also comes with a 4 season living package, and 2 A/C's one has a heat pump, and 4-20 pound gas bottle's, 2 on each side with slide out trays.
Tow capacity for my truck as stated on the internet is 16,832 pounds.
If I am over weight the 6.7 Cummings hasn't complained and I was out west in Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Montana.
I just know if I can pull it and stop it then I can't worry too much right now. I don't understand looking at the weight each axle, both truck and trailer, will carry or what I put in the truck, and the pin weight. Sitting on flat ground the truck is level and the trailer is also level, what I would call a balanced package. After 51 years of driving many types of vehicles all over the US plus Alaska, and Hawaii,Germany, Viet Nam, I even toured the eastern US on a motor cycle, been in driving rained, white out blizzards in a convoy from Anchorage to Fairbanks in a Jeep as the driver for the company commander. I said all that because I don't understand all the technical talk, really it is a little confusing to me to try and cut the numbers to an exact figure. I am not arguing with anyone, actually I am rather impressed that so many of you have spent so much time on the subject. I am a little old country boy, really a swamper from Florida, with an A.A., B.A., M.A., and Doctorate, wife said I can take all of that to Starbucks and $6.00 and will be able to get a cup of coffee.
