Calling all RAM 2500 fiver owners

randygk wrote:
I was hoping my truck would squat some when hitching to level out the trailer. Pin weight at 1500 lbs and truck barely lowers. Payload on truck is 2100 lbs and with the trailer, wife, 108 lb dog and I we're near max. Truck doesn't seem to handle much different. I suspect I could add much more weight. I see a lot of 2500's I see pulling much bigger fivers, but I'm a numbers guy.
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With that payload you may have the Ram Laramie Crew Cab 4x4 diesel I am looking at. If that is so, then I think you have more payload than 2100 lbs.

The placard states that the payload is calculated with five passengers. If each of them is 150 lbs. (which is what I think is the standard) then the simplest thing is to add 750 lbs to the payload for a total of 2850 lbs with no passengers.

Then start subtracting you, your wife, and the dog to get payload left; I will let you do that, no way am I going to guess the weight of a woman :).

I made that mistake. I know that the entire weight of what I want to put on the truck is about 1900 Lbs. That included me and my wife, tongue weight and stuff. I added three passengers to the truck payload and then subtracted 1900 lbs. That double counted the two of us.

It was only reading this thread that I realized my mistake. So I went from about 600 lbs left to about 950 lbs. That makes me more comfortable with a 2500.