Hauling a heavy camper and towing
We are working on leaving the 5th wheel business and entering the truck camper side. We have hit the lower 48 and parts of Canada. We are looking to spend the next 10 years, more in the boonies, plu...
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jimh425 wrote:specta wrote:
And I thought mine looked overloaded.
Looks can be deceiving. His is also a DRW.
And the "looks" pass muster with the un-informed rvnet weight cops because of the training wheels on the back.
When, by rvnet rules, that old D350 is waaay overloaded! Think those trucks had a gvwr of 10k or just over 10klbs.
Not saying it's too much for the truck. In fact, we bought a couple new W350s '89 and '91 models iirc where I worked. The guys would over load the trucks so bad it made the frame shaped like a rainbow!
Somewhere around 18k gvw and 40k combined combined breaks major components in half and wears out everything else in very short order.
