Greenhorn Jitters
Gentlemen (and women), fire up your opinions. This brand spankin' newbie just bought the 2014 Ram Big Horn Crew Cab 6'4" bed 5.7 Hemi with 3.92 in the rear end and towing pkg with integrated brake con...
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I wouldn't and I'm far from a registered weight police guy. Heck I tow 200lbs over my GVW right now. My thinking is that I've BTDT. Towed 7300lbs @31' with an F150. with maxtow. Forget about the doggy 5.4 it had, it was the overall handling that I didn't like. 70% of the time it was just okay. The rest while not white knuckle was attention grabbing.
6900lbs will be 7900lbs if you have kids. 12% of 7900lbs is 940lbs. That leaves you with 464lbs for family. I'm guessing that's close to what yours is. Now couple a maxed out truck towing almost 34' @7900-8000lbs and IMO it's white knuckle time. You won't like it unless you're just going 50-60 miles for a weekend trip. Then I guess you'd just get used to it. But like mentioned before if you're planning on seeing a larger area then 5-7 hrs of pulling a 34' 8000lb TT with a maxed out truck and a couple kids wanting to know if they're there yet could be unnerving IMO.
6900lbs will be 7900lbs if you have kids. 12% of 7900lbs is 940lbs. That leaves you with 464lbs for family. I'm guessing that's close to what yours is. Now couple a maxed out truck towing almost 34' @7900-8000lbs and IMO it's white knuckle time. You won't like it unless you're just going 50-60 miles for a weekend trip. Then I guess you'd just get used to it. But like mentioned before if you're planning on seeing a larger area then 5-7 hrs of pulling a 34' 8000lb TT with a maxed out truck and a couple kids wanting to know if they're there yet could be unnerving IMO.
