Ford F250 6.2L V8

Nope. Just know what I know and you know what you know.

So, your an expert on Glamis and California but you live in MA????

olddesertrider wrote:
You are misinformed. I have been a Glamis regular for over 30 years
and what you described has never occurred. I offroad with a circle of friends that can number as many as 60 large 5th wheel toy haulers and motorhomes pulling large box trailers. The only issues with CHP and local LEOs have been length infractions. No one I know of has ever been cited or checked for weight. We hear from time to time the wives tales
of weight checkpoints but they are just rumors that are never proven true.

olddesertrider

You are either lying or the luckiest man alive. Folks have been getting weighed for years coming out of Glamis. Pull my trailer with my truck there and I'd get ticketed and made to drop my RV and pay someone to tow it that is rated for my weight.

You are misinformed. I have been a Glamis regular for over 30 years
and what you described has never occurred. I offroad with a circle of friends that can number as many as 60 large 5th wheel toy haulers and motorhomes pulling large box trailers. The only issues with CHP and local LEOs have been length infractions. No one I know of has ever been cited or checked for weight. We hear from time to time the wives tales
of weight checkpoints but they are just rumors that are never proven true.

olddesertrider

Wrong. California does check RV's for weight. They run portable scales in a few very well documented areas like outside Glamis.

Some erroneous info here. California DOES NOT check private RV towing weights. You do not go thru scales in CA. They are for commercial trucks only checking big rigs for Fed DOT legal weights.

Have been towing all manner of trailers and trucks for over 40 years. Have been stopped for other reasons but NEVER checked for weight.
That said, towing laws state if towing rig appears unsafe it can be removed from highway usage at the discretion of the LEO (CHP).

olddesertrider


Note; You will find at the few offroading areas in CA (especially the Glamis dunes) numerous rigs that are borderline overloaded with a few very overloaded and they are never checked by the LEOs. And there are very few accidents with these rigs and when they do happen it usually involves alcohol.

I pulled a 12k 37' 5er with a 6.4L Hemi with 4.10 gears. It did a great job, even in the mountains.

Some other reasons for the F250 in the Northeast after you drop the trailer, left lane on interstates, some parkways, ezpass, all need 10k or less. Some roads are 10k or less and the list goes on. You are just a fish swimming in the sea, learn the rules and play by them. Mine is a diesel, the weights are all within book with my 5er.

I've towed trailers with 3-axle tractors as well as pickups. I could always tell I had a trailer behind me. I don't know if the trucks knew it or not :B

Mike Up wrote:

goducks10 wrote:
Might be fine in Indiana, but if you're out in mtn country I don't think that 6.2 would be any fun. Big difference between the west and the Midwest.

Depending where in Indiana, our winds here put as much strain or more so, than hills and mountains I've driven in.

Driving through 40 mph winds really puts some stress in towing.

Pretty sure "Indiana" was figurative for anywhere flat land low altitude. Btw , there's wind in every state it's not mutually exclusive to indiana. Lol
And you haven't driven in too many mountains of you can work the truck just as hard as your mountains, in the Midwest.
Go rip one off at 8-10kft, 6-7% uphill grade for miles with a head wind and get back to us......