Sammie1 wrote:
My husband thinks from what he has read that we don't need a dually to pull a 40 ft 5th wheel. He says an f350 should do the job. We will want to be able to tow at least 18000 lbs. everyone has a different opinion, so who do we listen too? What happens if we don't get a dually. Keep in mind this is our first big truck and 5th wheel as we are new to this.
Your husband sounds like me 3 years ago. I figured "Hell, my F-150 is rated to tow 11,000 lbs, so it'll tow anything I'm interested in." Flash forward to 2 years later "Crap, all the RV's I like are under the tow weight, but I never considered payload in my rig. All these RV's have about 1,000 lbs of tongue weight and that's empty; I only have 1400 lbs to play with after weighing myself at the recycle yard scale... time to get a 3500 SRW and be done with this game." Hence I now own the truck below and I've deferred my RV purchasing plans another year or two.
