I have a weight dilemma.. what would you do?
2500 Silverado Diesel GVW 10,000 Rushmore Washington 5ver 15,500 I have 20" rims on pickup 20% of 15500 is 3255 +8380= 11635 Would you look at trading pickup for dually or spend money to beef ...
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travelnutz wrote:
Kind of comical seeing all the posts citing the truck's brakes when pulling a large trailer. The trailer brakes stop the trailer anmd pull backwards on the tow vehicle if adjusted properly. Having the truck's brakes stop the trailer is asking for a jacknife to happen! The trailer MUST pull backward on the truck when braking! Different when hauling a truck camper as it has no axle nor brakes so the truck brakes must stop both.
That's funny or is it comical? :h
On their own the brakes on my current 3500HD dually are designed to stop a 13,000 pound truck and the last truck I had was a 2010 2500HD where the brakes on it were designed to stop a 9,200 pound truck. Theoretically the dually is 29% better.
At the controller I setup the properly adjusted trailer brakes to the point just before lockup with either truck. I feel that familiar tug whenever I step on the brake pedal in either truck/trailer combo.
Except that the dually has better stopping ability so from a practicable standpoint.... yes that combo does stop better than it did when the over loaded 3/4 ton pulled the same trailer. This with the trailer pulling backwards on the TV.
