2014 Ultimate 1 Ton Challenge results

Bedlam wrote:
In my case, I currently haul 2 tons of camper and have half a ton of hitch weight on an extension with my F250. Loaded, I am at 6 tons and towing 4 tons behind me. It does this surprising well, but we plan to go to a bigger truck camper that will approach 3 tons and requires twice the hitch extension length I now run. When I ran the numbers I was getting close to the 16K lb GVWR of Class 4 chassis cabs. The excess capacity of 19k lb GVWR Class 5's can used to haul a large battery bank or extra water while staying within all of the weight police real or imaged ratings.

Skim over some of the thread in the TC section to get an idea of typical weights we carry. The GVWR is almost always over while the GCWR is usually still within published ratings.

The bad thing about your situation is that you need heavy springs for your carrying capacity but along with those heavy springs comes a low speed axle ratio which you might be happier without. I see how in order to stay within all your ratings you need that class 5 truck, otherwise you probably would be real happy with a 3500 GMC with a little heavier spring under it.