Towing 9K pound loaded trailer with Ram 2500
Hi Everyone- I have a 2024 Ram 2500 CC tradesman 6.4 hemi with 4.10 gears and a GVWR of 10,000 lbs. I am looking at buying a TT that is 7800 lbs unloaded, loaded looking at around 9000 lbs or so. ...
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Short answer, yes, no problem. Although some will attempt to debate or overcomplicate the answer to this question.
95% of the time you are correct but then we get people posting that they are within the tow rating but it doesn't tow well because they didn't fully understand the limits.
Since the point of this site is to learn, providing some of the exceptional cases is valuable.
Fair enough, but in this case there are no limits, vehicle rating, real world, implied or contrived, that apply to that truck with that size camper.
To your point though, the OP admittedly appears to not know what to expect nor has any towing experience. So understanding what you’ve explained could be beneficial.
Just like the “plan to get a wdh” in his original post. Barring some outrageously heavier than normal tongue weight or outrageously lighter than normal tongue weight and poor axle placement by the mfg resulting in a combined tail wagging the dog, neither weight distribution should be necessary, nor sway control.
Yet here we are.
Reminds me though, time again to try to sell the wdh I got with a past camper that goes unused and haven’t been able to unload it for like 3 years now…..Just like the “plan to get a wdh” in his original post.
Up here you would automatically get a WDH with that combo. it is generally needed any time the trailer weighs over 50% of the tow vehicle weight, or over 5000lbs for a light duty truck so up to a 1 ton pickup. the other guide line is when the hitch weight exceeds 10 to 15% of the trailer weight. but I don't look at a equalizer hitch as an anti sway, yes it may help, but for me it is to relevel the truck and make it not bounce front to rear when you hit a bump.
this is why I don't like recommending a 15% hitch weight because it automatically puts them into the equalizer range.
