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Stefonius wrote:memtb wrote:Remind me not to be anywhere near your rig on the highway. Unless God grants me the ability to rise from the dead after an accident, I would never leave the house with a 20k trailer with 3,500# of pin weight if I already knew I was at or over on the rears. That's just begging for catastrophic failure. I don't play Russian Roulette, and I don't tow "under-trucked". The additional stability and load carrying that I get from my dually is priceless, and gives me peace of mind. I know that I'm not endangering myself, or any of the other innocent people that share the road with me.
So, the dually is DOA! Our rig is approx. 20K with 3500# or so pin weight. So, on our srw, we're at or over on the rears.
It does suck in the snow, though. ANY pickup with no weight over the drive axle sucks in the snow, but the dually is a lot easier to break loose in poor traction.
Settle down just a tad. 20klbs is a LOT of trailer, but aside from the sticker on the door jamb, any of the new srw 1tons could easily still be within the factory tire/wheel ratings and the axle mfgs axle rating AND with the same frame and brakes that are under a dually, so not quite the doomsday scenario that you're portraying....
To be fair I'd want 4 back tires lugging around 10tons of trailer as well, but I wouldn't Cancel the trip if I had to do it with a properly equipped srw.
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