kjmedwards wrote:
We are looking at a Heartland Road Warrior fifth wheel, toy hauler. It has a GVWR of 18,000 and a dry weight of 14,090. The hitch weight of the RV is 3,200.
If that is the dry pin weight you have a relatively high pin ratio of 22%.
That means if you loaded to GVWR, your pin weight would be 4100#. Seems to me that eats up the total truck payload. You need some leftover for people, the hitch and other stuff.
Even if you load lighter (say 16K#) and can get the payload within range, pulling even 16,000# with 250 HP and a truck rated for 12,800# is not my idea of a carefree drive!
There's a reason for the 12,800 tow rating - probably the transmission, so you would be pushing an 11 year old trans way beyond its design limits.
Did I say I suggest that is not a good idea!
