Are You Buying All These Half-ton Claims?

fx2tom wrote:
Don't take my words out of context, there is a huge difference between towing relaxed (maybe not quite the right word) and driving recklessly. I have towed everything from 12 ft landscape trailers to 40 ft fifth wheel toy hauler in a 3500 CTD. I can tell you that there is a difference in towing with a half ton and 8300 lb trailer and a 3/4 ton with the same trailer. I would actually say that me driving in the 3/4 is safer because I am not constantly nervous with every bit of sway I feel from cross winds.

I don't believe I took a single word out of context.

I tow with a half ton truck. I have never once had ANY sway or felt out of control at all. I have my WDH set up correctly. I have E rated tires. My Tundra is set up appropriately to tow my rig. My rig is within Toyota's specs. My rig is completely safe to tow, despite it being a half ton truck.

Read my post again... I stated that if you don't have things properly set up in a half ton and simply move to a 3/4 ton and don't have things properly set up than you are just temporarily masking the problems. If you don't have our sway control set up properly, when you get a big gust of wind it is going to cause you problems... whether or not its a 3/4 ton truck.

There are a LOT of variables into making a tow rig unsafe. A dumbass can find a way to unsafely tow a 1,000 lbs trailer with a dually Ram.