Questions About Trailering an F-250 Super Duty Truck?

Unless you need to haul a lot of stuff down to the bus, why don't you fly down? You can drive home in three days, so you don't need to have much with you. This eliminates all sorts of issues and expenses.

Bill

What about towing it 4 down instead of on a trailer?
I don't have much experience with doing that sort of thing but we have a forum that probably can help. I will move this to the Dinghy Towing forum. You will most likely get some help from those folks.
Good luck.
Barney

BarneyS wrote:
What about towing it 4 down instead of on a trailer?
I don't have much experience with doing that sort of thing but we have a forum that probably can help. I will move this to the Dinghy Towing forum. You will most likely get some help from those folks.
Good luck.
Barney

A lot of the newer Fords don't have a neutral in the transfer case - my 2005 doesn't.

Bill

One way car rental? Rental car that would require a smaller trailer or just a car dolly? Penske rentals might have a trailer capable of holding a 9,400 lbs. truck?

Hi Guys, those are all good ideas... After posting this I realized that I could easily leave the truck in an rv or some sort of storage area and then fly back down and just drive it up myself. Thanks to all..

9,400 pounds seams awfully heavy. My F350 diesel SD had a shipping weight of 7,439 pounds and a GVWR of 11,500 pounds.

bluie5 wrote:
9,400 pounds seams awfully heavy. My F350 diesel SD had a shipping weight of 7,439 pounds and a GVWR of 11,500 pounds.

I would imagine it's closer to 6,400#. The GVWR is probably somewhere around 10,000#.

FYI in case the OP goes the trailer route.
I hauled wheel equipment with heavy GN trailers. These trailers are heavy and eat up available payload.
Example is a 14000 gvwr flatdeck with tandem 7k axles. The trailer itself may weigh in the 4500-5000 lb range depending on GN/bumper pull and other options. This leaves around 9k-9.5k for the trailers payload. Experienced trailer dealers and the trailer mfg can help you there.

Carrying a pickup that size on a trailer is a DOT target especially with out of state vehicle tags. Just be sure the trailer has tire capacity to cover axle loads and be sure and carry your trucks title to prove its yours and your not for hire.

Thanks for all the great responses. As for my truck weight, I visited Alexander Ford in Yuma and gave them my registration from which to read the VIN. They printed out a data sheet that stated a lot of specs on my truck and 9400 was the stated weight on that document. I was surprised to see that myself but after all is done, I think I will drive it home myself and probably just fly back down for the other..

You don’t know what you weigh until you drive onto a scale.
9400 is too much for almost any bumper-pull car trailer.
None of us can give any real advice without knowing things like whether the bus has a hitch, how stout (what size hitch ball) and whether it’s got a brake controller.

Renting a car one-way or flying in is a way better idea.