Does my 2006 Duramax need a brake controller?

Sprink-Fitter wrote:
So you own and you drive the truck but you don't know if you have a brake controller?

Correct. I bought the truck a year ago and use it for family trips, moving my tractor, trips to the home improvement stores, trips to the steel supplier, taking the Kayaks to the lake, going tent camping, towing my little 5x8 foot trailer when I need extra hauling room and everything else imaginable. But it is not my daily driver. I love my 2006 Duramax and bought it with the express purpose of buying an RV (bumper pull trailer, 5th wheel or camper) when I could afford one and not have to worry about being "under trucked".

I know this forum will find this very difficult to believe but not all pickups are used to pull travel trailers! I know... blasphemy!!!

I am pretty sure the 67 F100 that I came from had a leather strap wrapped around the rear axle that tightened up to slow the truck down when I stepped on the brake pedal. So I am kind of new to brake controllers.

I ran home at lunch and see the connector for the brake controller next to the brake pedal with nothing plugged into it. I printed out a new Prodigy P3 from ebay with the GM pigtail for $145 and took it to the RV store. I bought a P3 and pigtail from them for $170. I will plug it in tonight.

I didn't do a lot of research but I assume the P3 is an upgrade over the P2 with the fancy screen on the P3 and everything?

P.S. I had surge brakes on my 20' 1976 Glastron so I am familiar with them. The equipment trailer did not have the hydraulic cylinder on the tongue like my boat did.