Toy Hauler Towing weight

Even the year of truck purchased will make a heck of a difference as to whether or not is will handle it. Personally with a 3/4 ton, I wouldn't want to pull anything over about 36-38ft. Pin weight shouldn't be over about 4K...mid 3s more likely for the Road Warriors in the 42ft range but still a lot for a SRW 3/4 ton. Most pin weight ratios I've seen run in the 18-20% range.

I can't imagine a 42' toy hauler would be too comfortable with a SRW truck. The 250/350 distinction is meaningless on newer trucks in the real world, or can be made meaningless easily, but there's an actual capability difference with the SRW/DRW distinction.

welcome to the forum Carl.
I would ask the mod or adm to move you over to our toy hauler forum where someone may have the same trailer and maybe the same truck. They will be able to tell you how to mod your 2500 truck to pull a 20000 lb trailer.....or maybe a much bigger truck will be needed.

Anywayz your 3/4 ton truck may have the same engine/tranny/front and rear axle as the bigger one ton DRW truck....however most 3/4 ton trucks are limited by a 6000-6500 RAWR which means around 2800-3200 lb payload in the bed.
A one ton DRW for example can have a 9375-9800 RAWR for 6000-6500 lb payload all depending truck configurations.

Looking at the Road Warrior web show these trailers are in the 20000 gvwr range which means wet pin weights in the 4k-5k lb range.

Your looking at a one ton DRW at the minimum.

Bags and 19'5's "it will tow just fine". ;)

You need to look at the numbers, truck, and trailer. You will likely be over trucks GVWR, due to class 2 restriction. You need to look at truck RAWR/tire max rating.

To get opinions, you need to post trailer weight numbers also.

Jerry

You're probably thinking correctly. It's not the towing capacity but, rather, the pin weight of the loaded trailer on the rear axle of a 3/4 ton truck. Take 23% of the GVWR of the trailer and use that as the loaded pin weight for estimations. Scale your truck with fuel, passengers, hitch, and all your stuff and subtract the actual weight of the rear axle from the GVWRR (gross vehicle weight rating rear) on the truck's door sticker. You'll most likely be in the danger zone.

Rob