Yet another "Do I have enough truck?"
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It got off topic because you mentioned it. If you wanted to talk exclusively about weight you should have left that part out. It's called directing the conversation.
You can't possibly be serious at this point.
Your DRW truck should weigh around 6500lbs empty, as it's a '97 and a 2WD. It has a 10,000lb GVWR. That leaves you 3500lbs of payload capacity for the trailer's pin weight and your family.
The trailer has a 7500lb GVWR, so worst case scenario if you load it with lead ingots and actually hit that 7500lb mark, and it has a worst-case 30% pin weight, you have a pin of around 2100lbs.
3500 - 2100 = 1400lbs left for you and your family. It is highly likely that the pin weight is much less than that, though.
The only way you will be over GVWR is if there are six of you and you all weigh more than an average of 240lbs each.
The trailer you are looking at is lightweight. You have plenty of truck, so either stop worrying or let us in on the joke.
You can't possibly be serious at this point.
Your DRW truck should weigh around 6500lbs empty, as it's a '97 and a 2WD. It has a 10,000lb GVWR. That leaves you 3500lbs of payload capacity for the trailer's pin weight and your family.
The trailer has a 7500lb GVWR, so worst case scenario if you load it with lead ingots and actually hit that 7500lb mark, and it has a worst-case 30% pin weight, you have a pin of around 2100lbs.
3500 - 2100 = 1400lbs left for you and your family. It is highly likely that the pin weight is much less than that, though.
The only way you will be over GVWR is if there are six of you and you all weigh more than an average of 240lbs each.
The trailer you are looking at is lightweight. You have plenty of truck, so either stop worrying or let us in on the joke.
