New to TT - TT Tow Weight Question
Hey everyone, I am new to the forum and fairly new to TTs. I bought my truck prior to the thought of purchasing a TT - my wife went camping last weekend with some friends and is fired up about purchas...
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Nobody here can give you the exact weight as far as safely towing a trailer.
A ball park range based off of 1/2 ton trucks is going to be the best you will get.
The fact that your truck is a crew cab will reduce that weight, and then hauling 4 people total (even if 2 are kids) will reduce it some more.
It seems that 5,000-6,000 lbs. might be a good place to START. But what you need to do is take your truck, fill it with fuel, passengers, and anything else you can think of that you would haul in the truck when camping.
Then drive to local CAT scales (or stone quarry,etc) and weigh your truck. Subtract that weight from the GVWR of your truck and that will tell you the leftover payload capacity.
Then it's a matter of selecting a travel trailer with a tongue weight under that payload capacity.
A good rule of thumb is that tounge weight is usually 12%-15% of your overall TT weight. So if you have say 800 lbs. left for payload then that would mean your TT cannot have a tongue weight more than that. Our 35' Jayco Eagle is almost 9,000 lbs. when loaded and the tongue weight is about 1250 lbs. as weighed by our Sherline tongue scale (which is around 14% of the overall TT weight).
A ball park range based off of 1/2 ton trucks is going to be the best you will get.
The fact that your truck is a crew cab will reduce that weight, and then hauling 4 people total (even if 2 are kids) will reduce it some more.
It seems that 5,000-6,000 lbs. might be a good place to START. But what you need to do is take your truck, fill it with fuel, passengers, and anything else you can think of that you would haul in the truck when camping.
Then drive to local CAT scales (or stone quarry,etc) and weigh your truck. Subtract that weight from the GVWR of your truck and that will tell you the leftover payload capacity.
Then it's a matter of selecting a travel trailer with a tongue weight under that payload capacity.
A good rule of thumb is that tounge weight is usually 12%-15% of your overall TT weight. So if you have say 800 lbs. left for payload then that would mean your TT cannot have a tongue weight more than that. Our 35' Jayco Eagle is almost 9,000 lbs. when loaded and the tongue weight is about 1250 lbs. as weighed by our Sherline tongue scale (which is around 14% of the overall TT weight).
