Taphillip wrote:
I’m looking for real world experience. I just bought a 2017 srw 6.7 F350 diesel. A local guy has a 2003 lance 1171 with one slide I would like to buy. It’s 3700 lb dry weight.
My new truck is rated 11500 gvwr. I weighed it at a DOT scale at 8380lbs.
The sticker inside my door panel says 3296# as max passenger and cargo load.
Am I asking for more trouble than it’s worth, especially if I’d like to tow a trailer with a couple four wheelers on it? The ford dealer told me I didn’t need a duelly but now I’m wondering.
Thanks for any insight you can provide.
Here’s a few items that come to mind. . .
1.) You can forget about the “big Lance” on that little truck, however, if your F350 is a short-bed there are some really nice ‘smaller’ campers that can be put on it that are well within your payload.
A Northstar Liberty comes to mind.
2.) I found the following statement to be unpopular but VERY frequently true:
Pretty much ALL truck campers are overloaded, it’s just that the dually trucks are
slightly over loaded while the single rear wheel trucks are
dangerously over loaded.
3.) Sticker shock:
Campers always weigh more that they really weigh.
The VIN sticker on my camper says 2950 pounds but when loaded on my truck my local CAT Scale shows that it’s a LOT closer to 4000 Pounds!
Just saying.
4.) Whatever you decide my advice is to not go over your tire’s ratings, and (to stay out of jail) register your truck for what it actually weighs, not what someone else told you it weighs.
The scale ticket below shows my “little” Arrow-U camper on my rather anemic RAM 3500 srw truck…
My truck is registered at 12,300 pounds so as you can see, I’m getting mighty close at 11,940#
I’d like to tow an enclosed tandem trailer for my toys but that would be looking for trouble.
Honestly… I should have bought a short-frame F550 cab-chassis but meh… live and learn.
Happy shopping and welcome!
Ej
