30,000 lbs behind the Ram
Clicky The Rams time was almost exactly what I expected out of a 385 hp engine. Using the same formula the 440 HP Powerstroke should have made the run in 10.5 minutes.
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transamz9 wrote:
Hauling to market is one thing but around here the farmers haul from farm to farm and they do it with their pick up trucks and I promise you a 30,000# trailer load of cattle is not uncommon behind a 1 ton truck.
Even at that, my point is that RVers are NOT what these truck manufacturers are marketing to. How many 500# bails of tobacco do you think you can get on a 30' deck? Hay? Tractor with implement? Then you have construction. We pull 30,000# trailers quite often with "1 ton" trucks and cross the scales with them. Believe me, it's more common than you think and now we can do it with trucks that are "rated" by the manufactures to do it.
I am curious as to what kind of trailers you use since most 32 footers are limited to 20-22k GVWR. Heck, even the commercial 40 ft stock trailers are limited to 20-24k GVWR. I know a lot of farmers who "think" they are hauling way more than they actually are mainly because most don't actually weight what they are pulling. In regards to this, I will have to see it to believe it and even then I believe that this is a very very very small percentage of farmers and ruck buyers. The vast majority(as in 99.9%) will never even come close to towing a 30k trailer. Just to be clear, what I mean by that is the trailer actually weighing 30k like this Ike test, not the truck and trailer combined weighing 30k. A combined 30k only means you are pulling a 21-22k trailer.
