Heavy Duty / Super Duty Truck as Daily Driver
Soooo I find myself needing a new vehicle unexpectedly. I want to be able to tow the current TT which is about 22' and has a dry weight of 3300 lbs as well as the next larger TT I'm likely to get. I...
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wing_zealot wrote:LAJMINNIEPLUS wrote:Your statement was that you need "At Least"1800 lbs of payload to pull a trailer with 1000 lbs of payload. Wrong!, all you need is enough for the tongue weight and driver. If you want cargo and passengers fine, add that in. You Don't add fluids, those are all ready included.wing_zealot wrote:LAJMINNIEPLUS wrote:You need to look what the term payload includes and doesn't include.
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1200# isn't much in todays world and wouldn't be enough to haul most trailers in the 6-7k # range. You need at least 1700# to pull that much. My Sierra 1500 had a payload of over 1700# with a gross weight of 7200# and I was maxed out on gross hauling my 7500# Winnebago with just myself and wife as passengers and a few hundred pounds in the truck body. If your trailer has a tongue weight of 1000# and your truck needs at least 1800# payload in order to fit passengers/fluids/etc...
1000 lbs of tongue weight and 200 lbs driver, what's the other 600 lbs for?
Going camping alone with no gear in the truck? Usually there is at least 1 -4 additional passengers and other gear in the truck bed. It all adds up quickly as payload. And the payload adds to the gross truck weight along with gasoline and other fluids.
And you certainly don't need 1800 lbs of payload to haul a 6000 lbs trailer.
I can haul my 7600 lbs trailer with my 1500 lbs payload Ram and have enough payload to take my wife, toolbox, and a 100 lbs of firewood and have over a 100 lbs of payload left over.
My trailer weighed over 8000# when I took a trip out west this past Fall and I could certainly "haul" it. A lot of it boils down to the quality of ride when you approach your load limit. When loaded for local camping, I had at least 500# of payload reserve and was quite happy with the ride. But, when loaded for a long trip, my truck was maxed at exactly 7600# and the ride on some less than smooth concrete highways and bridges was not quite pleasant.
Have you put your Ram and trailer on the scales to see what it actually weighs?
