2023 Ford 40k towing, 500hp, 1200tq

RoyJ wrote:

Grit dog wrote:
^My point exactly.
A light duty truck with as much power and towing capacity of an average OTR truck from 20 years ago is still the wrong vehicle to use primarily for that purpose (towing 40klbs).
But with that kind of power and as stout as new pickemup trucks are, it will handle the occasional “big rig” duty.

My concern is the GVW to trailer axle weight, i.e. tail wagging the dog syndrome.

Assuming 6500 truck, 8000 pin weight, 32000 trailer axle weight. That's 14,500 truck GVW controlling 32,000 trailer axle weight.

A standard 80k semi has 12k steer, 34k drive, 34k trailer. That's 46,000 of truck GVW controlling 34,000 trailer. That's 3x better ratio than the pickup

Make's quite a difference alright. I was pulled over once in a class 8 highway tractor towing an empty 45 foot flat bed trailer. The officer checked my truck and trailer out and then proceeded to put blocks around my trailer tires.... I presumed he was wanting to check my trailer brakes. He came back up to the window and started barking out orders, "I want you to pull this button and push that one, then, when I say so, I want you to" ... I interrupted, telling him "I can save you the effort .... they're not hooked up anyway". He was not impressed, "Not hooked up. How come there not hooked up?" "Well," I said, "there not hooked up cuz they don't work." My fine was significant but the fact of the matter is when you've got 23k lbs on the truck, the brakes on that empty trailer's axles are not going to make a whole lot of difference. Now if things had been weighted the other way where an 8k truck is pulling a 23k lb trailer...