carringb wrote:
dodge guy wrote:
We'll See wrote:
You would be better off buying a class C and towing your minivan on a dolly. No way in the world you should try and fit 6 people in a crew cab pickup for more than an hour.
Most class C's don't have the CCC for a family. Some only have 900lbs! Hardly enough for a couple let alone a family of 6.
That's not always true. Yes, many luxury versions are really tailored for couples.
But some larger family floor-plans have nearly 2000 pounds of CCC on the E450 chassis. This certainly wouldn't leave a lot of headroom for packing heavy, but with 7500 pounds of towing capacity, some of the cargo can go in the toad!
Just one example with enough seatbelts and sleeping space, and over 1900 pounds CCC:
That kind of payload is a rarity. Most I have seen had a hair over 1k lbs. I've even seen an F53 class A chassis with bunks with only 1200lbs! My TT had 4100lb of payload. Of that I used 2200. That was in a TT. Now put that in a MH and add in the people and you are at 3k lbs easy.
