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dante93gtz
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Oct 26, 2017

Help me make sense of my vehicle's towing capabilities

I'm trying to best determine what my truck is (and is not) capable of hauling. We recently sold our F350 diesel in favor of something with 3 rows of seating. We bought a '14 Cadillac Escalade ESV AW...
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mitchmitchell16
Explorer
Nov 04, 2017
One of the best towing calculators I've seen is the spreadsheet done by Purdue University Agricultural Department and the Princeton, Kentucky Police Department:

ConventialHitchTruckTrailerCalculator

It walks you through most everything including vehicle ratings, actual weights, hitch ratings, safety chain ratings, tire ratings and really helps you find all the numbers you need to know to tow safely.


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