New Travel Trailer

eluwak wrote:

JohnnyE! wrote:

eluwak wrote:
Mine was rated 11300 lbs and had 1850 lbs payload capacity. He has a good truck for that size range trailer IMO. He could still go over ratings fore sure, but there's a ton of options that shouldn't.

That's a lot of tow capacity for a V6.

I have a 2013 Ram 1500, 5.7L V8, and max tow is a little over 10000 lbs.

It's no ordinary V6 ;)

That's awesome. How does it do climbing and high altitude?

JohnnyE! wrote:

eluwak wrote:
Mine was rated 11300 lbs and had 1850 lbs payload capacity. He has a good truck for that size range trailer IMO. He could still go over ratings fore sure, but there's a ton of options that shouldn't.

That's a lot of tow capacity for a V6.

I have a 2013 Ram 1500, 5.7L V8, and max tow is a little over 10000 lbs.

It's no ordinary V6 ;)

eluwak wrote:
Mine was rated 11300 lbs and had 1850 lbs payload capacity. He has a good truck for that size range trailer IMO. He could still go over ratings fore sure, but there's a ton of options that shouldn't.

That's a lot of tow capacity for a V6.

I have a 2013 Ram 1500, 5.7L V8, and max tow is a little over 10000 lbs.

JohnnyE! wrote:

LewBob wrote:

old guy wrote:
your truck is a so-so truck. meaning it will only tow a small TT not a 29 ft tt. be sure you are with in your towing rating and nothing more. don't forget to add in passengers, gas and clothes and any thing else you put in the truck and the TT.

My F-150 EcoBoost is rated at 11,200 pounds towing capacity. Last year I pulled my previous trailer, a 32-foot Bullet, from south Texas to Oregon with no problems. I believe that a 26-29 foot trailer should be well within capacity.

Your F-150 has a 3.5l V6 Ecoboost and can tow 11,200 pounds?

Mine was rated 11300 lbs and had 1850 lbs payload capacity. He has a good truck for that size range trailer IMO. He could still go over ratings fore sure, but there's a ton of options that shouldn't.

I had a Cherokee grey wolf 26rl that sounds like what you are looking for.

LewBob wrote:

old guy wrote:
your truck is a so-so truck. meaning it will only tow a small TT not a 29 ft tt. be sure you are with in your towing rating and nothing more. don't forget to add in passengers, gas and clothes and any thing else you put in the truck and the TT.

My F-150 EcoBoost is rated at 11,200 pounds towing capacity. Last year I pulled my previous trailer, a 32-foot Bullet, from south Texas to Oregon with no problems. I believe that a 26-29 foot trailer should be well within capacity.

Your F-150 has a 3.5l V6 Ecoboost and can tow 11,200 pounds?

We own a 2013 F-150 with the 3.5 Ecoboost after much research we bought a 2014 Layton Joey Select model 272. We will be close to our weight limit but we plan to travel light. The Layton had everything we wanted and then some. It will be just the two of us but like you, we thought about a living area should we run into rainy days while camping. We visited the St. Louis RV show in January and it was a great place to get information.

There are probably a couple hundred TT models across several dozen brands to fit those requirements, over wide range of price ($12,000 to $40,000), luxury of fittings, and maybe even build quality. Like some of the other guys said, find a RV show, the bigger the better. I needed four big shows to begin to figure out what I wanted, and what I wanted to pay for, before I was ready to start checking out dealerships.

What is at the shows will be new, don't worry about that, you are not there to buy, rather to see what kinds of TTs fit your need. When you figure out what you want, then you look for something like it, used. Those will be at dealers or private sales.

old guy wrote:
your truck is a so-so truck. meaning it will only tow a small TT not a 29 ft tt. be sure you are with in your towing rating and nothing more. don't forget to add in passengers, gas and clothes and any thing else you put in the truck and the TT.

This is just plain misinformation. The ecoboost with max tow will comfortably pull a 29' TT in the 8000 GVWR area.

Lots of misinformation gets thrown around here as fact. Nothing wrong with opinions though.

Sounds like you've got the right tow vehicle for that size trailer, so the only question is, "which one"? As suggested, RV shows are a great resource to learn about the different floorplans, etc. Look, look, and look some more, meaning, take you time to discover your likes and dislikes. We shopped and looked for about 6 months before we bought our old trailer and ended up with something that was pretty much ideal for us.