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BritGirl
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Jul 06, 2014

Can our truck tow a 5th Wheel/Very concerned wife!

I am sure this question has been asked before but we are looking for our first 5th Wheel and we want to know if our truck can tow it. Currently we tow a travel trailer dry weight 6350, loaded weight a...
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Dayle1
Explorer II
Jul 07, 2014
dahkota wrote:
Wow.
The OP stated his/her truck weighs 8000 lbs loaded.
The OP stated his/her GVWR is 9500 lbs.
Simple math: 1500 lbs for pin weight and hitch.


You are right, but that 8k lbs may have included the TT tongue weight. No way a gas 3/4 ton loaded but without hitch weight would hit 8k. My previous '03 2500 with the diesel plus a utility bed and a 42 gal Transfer Flow fuel tank didn't weigh 8k lbs. Heck, even my present 1 ton diesel with the same utility bed doesn't weigh 8k lbs ready to roll.

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