Thoughts on WD hitch need

I have a dually as well. I towed my ORV 24RLS without WD hitch once. It was a pretty gnarly experience, so I installed the WD apparatus at camp and drove home using the WD hitch at the end of the trip. The ride and handling was much better.

BarneyS wrote:

Mike134 wrote:
I have to chuckle at the weight police. I've been on the forum a few years and all you read is you need a bigger truck, blah, blah, blah. The OP has a 1-TON DUALLY ONLY towing a 10,000 trailer and suddenly it's not enough truck?
You guys crack me up.

Safe travels, hitch up and never look back at the forum.

Who said he needed a bigger truck? I noticed a lot of questions about the receiver on the truck but not the "blah, blah, blah" that you talk about.:R
Barney

Technically you're correct, but the blah blah blah has started in earnest.

So I been reading bout how trailers "need" all this stuff to tow correctly. And given I've towed, idk, maybe 100s of different trailers behind light and med duty trucks over the years, I never could figure out what most of the hype was about.
With that, I've only casually towed a couple travel trailers over the years until a couple weeks ago.
Got me a 34' long toyhauler, thought maybe I'd see the magic happen with a wdh and sway control. Prev owner had a wdh he sold with the trailer. Same story "Ohhh man, you gotta use that thing or she's all over the road."
I was almost excited to try it, but alas it was too short for my truck sitting on a 6" lift and 37s, so I had to go old school...
With nervous trepidation (LOL) I hooked 'er up "naked" to the back of the truck. Stuffed 40psi in the bags since the truck is leveled and has the nice cushy Ram coil springs. That brought her back up to level so I didn't look like a 5 star Joe going down the road, and off we went.
Ripped off 300miles in about 4 hours. Most of the time cruise set on 80, save for pulling a big grade and the top of the pass....and that 50 miles or so of nasty quartering headwinds that greet you every time coming up out of the Columbia river basin it seems. Windy stretch I backed er down to about 70mph mostly because I thought I might run out of fuel before my fuel stop. Didn't know the lie o meter could read 5mpg, but it does!

My bubble was blown. Didn't get to see the magic. Still wonder what it's all about...
No white knuckles, no spilt drinks, no getting tossed allover the road...Oh well, maybe next time it'll be worse!

loydt wrote:
Sorry for the delay. I can tell you that it's a class V hitch with a tougue weight rating of 1800 lbs per ram website. The truck itself has a maximum trailer tow rating of over 30k pounds.

Only rated for 20k bumper pull trailers. Be tough to tow much more than that without tanking the back of the truck and being WAY heavy on tongue weight.

thomasmnile wrote:
Wonder what the Ram owner's manual recommends. Haven't seen a vehicle manual that doesn't address towing if it's capable of towing.

No need to wonder, google will tell ya in about 30 seconds.

Reisender wrote:

Mike134 wrote:
I have to chuckle at the weight police. I've been on the forum a few years and all you read is you need a bigger truck, blah, blah, blah. The OP has a 1-TON DUALLY ONLY towing a 10,000 trailer and suddenly it's not enough truck?
You guys crack me up.

Safe travels, hitch up and never look back at the forum.

So now I’m curious. What is the weight rating of new dually receiver. My old dually had two rating. One with and one without.

1800lbs weight dist or weight bearing, 20klbs max trailer weight.

Mike134 wrote:
I have to chuckle at the weight police. I've been on the forum a few years and all you read is you need a bigger truck, blah, blah, blah. The OP has a 1-TON DUALLY ONLY towing a 10,000 trailer and suddenly it's not enough truck?
You guys crack me up.

Safe travels, hitch up and never look back at the forum.

Mike,

I've had an 8500 lb trailer behind my 12k empty dump flat bed, with a 188" wb, 8k front axle, and 16.5k Ra manhandle the truck! ALL because it was loaded incorrectly with no hitch weight!

To others and OP,

To adds few other things, 1500 lbs of hw with a typical grawr of 8500, will remove around 200-300 lbs off the fa. Not a big deal. BUT a SW rig with a 6000-7000 grawr loses 309-400 lbs. This from experience is where handling issues from too little wt on the fa occur. Reality, no a WD is not needed for OPs truck.

Also with that said. From experience towing a box with a SW 3500 crew cab with typical 170" wb with 8' bed. I can tow said box loaded correctly with my fingers with no WD. BUT with a WD attached, I notice less side to side rocking of trailer in 20-30 mph side winds. LESS yet with a Reese dual cam. I would suspect less yet with a Hensley. No experience with a Hensley.
I have also been move half a lane to driver's side with a 60-80 mph gusts on I205 going north across Columbia River from Portland. Everything moved as a unit with the dual cam. No side to side uncontrolled fish tail sway.
With above said, I too will add use a WD anti sway system. ALSO make sure your trailer fully loaded can and does pull straight at any speed you are comfortable at. Be that 70 mph, or 60-65 is my general towing max. NOW add the bars for added insurance safety. If the trailer fishtail sways before adding bars. You've attempted to fix an injury with a band aid, when you need a tourniquet! If the bars fail, your screwed. Yes, I've had bars literally fall off, did not notice before driving over one mountain pass with some snow and ice in the roadway. Lightly snowing to boot!

My 02 on ALL the above

Marty

Wonder what the Ram owner's manual recommends. Haven't seen a vehicle manual that doesn't address towing if it's capable of towing.

loydt wrote:
Sorry for the delay. I can tell you that it's a class V hitch with a tougue weight rating of 1800 lbs per ram website. The truck itself has a maximum trailer tow rating of over 30k pounds.

Thanks for the comeback.

Sorry for the delay. I can tell you that it's a class V hitch with a tougue weight rating of 1800 lbs per ram website. The truck itself has a maximum trailer tow rating of over 30k pounds.

BarneyS wrote:

Mike134 wrote:
I have to chuckle at the weight police. I've been on the forum a few years and all you read is you need a bigger truck, blah, blah, blah. The OP has a 1-TON DUALLY ONLY towing a 10,000 trailer and suddenly it's not enough truck?
You guys crack me up.

Safe travels, hitch up and never look back at the forum.

Who said he needed a bigger truck? I noticed a lot of questions about the receiver on the truck but not the "blah, blah, blah" that you talk about.:R
Barney

Post number 5 and post #2 stated that truck would be "manhandled" by the trailer