Are You Buying All These Half-ton Claims?

CKNSLS wrote:
I always marvel at the line "a half-ton doesn't have enough mass to help control an emergency situation". The truth of the matter is that we all think we are expert drivers and can perform like a professionals behind the wheel. While this may be true in a few (and I mean VERY FEW) instances most of us don't have enough experience in emergency situations and the the "chips are going to fall wherever they may" when you get in to an extreme sway event, have a front tire blowout or whatever.

There are plenty of you tube videos showing 1 ton duallys in trouble and the aftermath.

Good post and I will take it one step further.

Have any of you that criticize towing with a half ton seen the size or weight of a new 1/2 tons? Lets get real here. Years ago, (and I don't mean too many years ago) a 3/4 ton truck weighted in at the same or less weight than todays 1/2 tons. My old gas rig weighted around high 4's or low 5's and towed my 7K TT just fine and the new trucks are light years ahead of that old stuff.

A new F150 pulled up nose to nose with my 93 diesel the other day and I was shocked. That damn thing was bigger in every way. Taller, wider, and just plain bigger. I bet it weighed more too. Pickups now days are flat out obese to trucks of yesteryear.

I would wager to guess that a lot of people on here that criticize 1/2 ton towing towed the same weight trailer with their 3/4 ton trucks of yesteryear and that was just fine even though their 3/4 ton truck was not even half the truck that the new 1/2 tons are.