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Hello! I wanted to jump in here and say hello from Mississippi. My wife, son, and I are looking at getting into rv'ing. We are looking at a few options for a travel trailer as we have a 1/2 ton pickup...
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kameleon wrote:I checked the specs of the smallest one you mentioned, the Transcend Xplor 243BH - the one you need to be concerned with mostly is GVWR which is 7495. Multiplied by 13% you get 974 lbs which will be your calculated tongue weight - not the 597 stated in the brochure for reasons stated above. Subtract this from your cargo capacity of 1390 leaves you with 416 lbs for stuff like a weight distributing hitch - scratch another 100 lbs, so 316 lbs for everything else like all the stuff you're going to haul in the bed, plus the weight of passengers/pets and cargo inside the truck.
Good info. I just checked and the TT's I'm looking at are rated at around 600lb-750lb tongue weight. This should be around half my payload capacity. This is the ballpark I am looking correct?
One more thing to mention is that air bags or other modifications do not increase payload. Good luck to you.
