Is a Tundra out of the Question

westend wrote:
I'm not knocking Tundras...

maybe it's all like a space shuttle down hill.

Sure does give the illusion you are knocking Tundras...

I will wholeheartedly agree that it is poor advice to recommend grossly exceeding your payload capacity. One should NOT tow a trailer with a golf cart in the bed of a Tundra.

If you have a trailer with a relatively low payload, say 850 loaded tongue weight, and you have an additional 600 lbs of payload leftover for 2 adults you should be okay. The OP needs to do some math and figure out what gear he plans to bring and where he plans to store it. When I go camping its my pregnant wife, my 2 year old daughter, me and 3 small dogs in the truck. We weigh under 500 lbs. We bring a small cooler with drinks and some fruit and perhaps a laptop and camera. Still under 500 lbs of gear in the truck. 850 tongue weight and 500 lbs of gear is 1350 lbs. Figure another 50 lbs for WDH, we are at 1400 lbs. That is right at the OP's specs.

He should be fine with the Tundra if he doesn't wish to purchase a 3/4 ton truck.

All the ignorance about half ton trucks is just as misleading as people claiming they can (safely) pull a trailer with a golf cart in the bed. How many people are we scaring away from enjoying the experience of camping when we tell them that their half ton can't pull a sub 8000 lbs trailer? How many people have a half ton and want to buy a small camper and experience what this country has to offer and get talked out of it because the fear mongorers amongst us scare them into thinking their half ton won't do the job? Those that can't afford a $20K camper AND a new truck are scared away from the one thing that we all supposedly share in common.