Your 1500 most likely has a Class 3 hitch. The weight rating for that is 6000 lbs. The guy at the dealership won't tell you that when you hook that new 30 footer up to it, you will probably be over the weight rating for your hitch. I had a class 4 hitch put on my 2500HD for this reason. I figured that if I were in some kind of accident, and some insurance investigator was nosing around, he could easily discover that my payload exceeded the recommended weight capacity of the Class 3 hitch. I didn't want any potential culpability or liability for that.
A Class 4 hitch is rated for 10,000 lbs.
Safe Travels!
Prober
