2009 Ford F250 pulling Montana 3625RE????

llmillerjr wrote:
Ford's Specs show 15,300 for Fifth wheel towing...

The problem with that- to pull 15,300 you can have a 150 pound driver and *nothing else*. But even that, for 15,300 pounds of fifth wheel- you'll typically have 20%-25% of pin weight (e.g. 3,060 pounds to 3,825 pounds). I don't know what kind of available payload that your truck has...

When looking at towing and can my truck do it is that there is no single number that tells you if you can or can't. There are a lot of numbers that matter:
- GVWR - gross vehicle weight rating; this is the maximum the truck is designed to carry (this includes the weight of the truck, driver, passenger(s), stuff in the bed, stuff on the truck, etc.
- Payload - this is the difference between what the truck weighs when unhitched/ready to camp and the GVWR. This is where you run out of pounds and end up exceeding GVWR long before hitting most any other number.
- GAWR - gross axle weight rating; there are separate ratings for the front/steer and rear/drive axles.
- Tire load capacity - this is the amount of weight the tires are rated to carry at a certain PSI.

Many people decide that GVWR is OK to exceed as long as they're within rear axle and tire load capacities.

I personally feel that you should be within all of your truck's ratings.

So now- here's how you figure out what your truck can tow.