3/4 ton truck questions

thomas201 wrote:
You live out on Long Island. Do you need a 250/2500? Neighborhood parking, parkways, and hammer lanes? My wife is a Jersey girl and the 350/3500 could cause me problems when visiting without the 5er. As to 5ers and the 3/4 ton class, it just depends. We have a rear kitchen that weighs 9600# loaded with everything I can think of (including a second spare for the truck, I like to 4 wheel at destinations) and it has never had over 1400# on the pin. The darn thing has been to 46 states and it pulls great with this light pin weight. My diesel F250 has over 2500# on the door sticker, and we have never weighed over 10k total, so all rules of thumb just go out the window when you look at a specific case.

I am a retired engineer, so you have to look at the whole system, not just the parts. However, without the Jersey wife, I too would be in the SRW one ton camp, or get the same thing (less the door sticker) with the camper package on a Ford F250.

Settle on the camper you want, then ask in the forums, and see if you can get a loaded pin estimate. Then buy the truck to fit. Understand you might have to change campers to park the truck at home on LI. Do you have neighborhood rules???