2015 powerstroke 440hp/860tq

Capt Skup wrote:
The 2015 Ford F-450 will up its maximum towing capacity by 6,500 pounds for a class-leading 31,200 pounds; gross combined weight rating increases by 7,000 pounds to a class-leading 40,000 pounds.

Read more: http://www.dieselpowermag.com/news/1403_2015_ford_power_stroke_440_hp_860_lb_ft_of_torque/#ixzz2vBlWhV00

When reading these numbers, I keep thinking of the guy that buys this truck to tow that much weight without any towing experience. Bringing 40,000lbs under control during emergency braking can certainly be a white knuckle experience. Are HD pickups quickly approaching the limits of conventional car/pickup licensing?

Really no one is really going to go buy a 31K# trailer just cause they want to, without experience. Finding a 5th Wheel RV getting pretty hard to find at or above 18000#. And most guys I know with larger RV trailers have gone through many sizes to get to the biggest ones. I started with a tent trailer.

The guys hauling commercially a 30K trailer are going to be running into the CDL rules and DOT rules.

And people that are getting a horse trailer with living quarters usually have been using trailers since they were 15. Farmers the same thing. I remember moving irrigation pipe trailers as my first trailer.

Pickups that can haul 31K trailers don't scare me.

And trailers have things called trailers brakes. Yes it won't stop like a Ferrari but its not like the truck has to do all the braking.