DRW vs SRW
We are close to buying a F350, 6.7 to pull a 5th wheel that weighs 12,650 empty. I'm guessing it weighs close to 14,000 lbs. once we are loaded and ready to travel, but we haven't weighed it yet. Curr...
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Long bed dual wheel trucks make the best tow vehicles. But as often pointed out the aren't the best for every thing else, sometimes they flat suck. I own a HD truck for one reason, to tow with. That's why we have a diesel DRW truck. I could have gone with a SRW at our weight, but a 18 GM SRW 3500 would have been at max with the load we carry. With the DRW truck I don't have to worry if I carry more firewood, or we change what or how we load. If we were to ever load to the 5'vers GVWR of 14,400 the SRW truck would likely have been over GVWR and close to RAWR.
