Maximum towing

richclover wrote:

mr61impala wrote:
Hello. It's been awhile since I've been here and I had forgotten how much fun this forum can be. Awhile back we decided to buy another travel trailer and we picked out one that weighed #5700 with a tongue weight of just under #800.

We purchased a new half ton Hemi crew cab with every available towing option including 3.92 gears, Ram rates it to tow #11,400 with a bed capacity of almost #1800.

Since we got this truck we started thinking maybe we could tow a little bigger camper and are wondering what would be a comfortable match to this particular vehicle. If you are towing with a 3.92 Hemi truck I would love to hear your story.

I am not into anything approaching it's maximum values as I don't want to hear the engine screaming up every hill, just wondering if #7000 or even #8000 trailer was a reasonable option. I will say when I'm towing my small tractor and bush hog on a #1550 tandem trailer (total weight of about #4500) you can barely tell it's back there.

Thanks in advance for your help.

We traded our Coleman bumper pull camper last spring. I hooked it up to our Ram Hemi half ton to haul it to the dealership about 2 miles away. It was unloaded, but still at least 900# on the WD hitch and close to 7000# gross.

No way I would be happy towing that rig with the half ton.

Behind my Ram 2500 Cummins... no worries.

The Hemi does very nicely towing the flatbed, loaded with the CanAm, total weight about 3300#. Well under limits, FWIW.

Have fun and, as always, YMMV!

PS. The only way to know what you are really towing is to load it all up and weigh it. Published numbers are... just that.

Thanks for the input!

Not sure what gearing your Hemi truck has but, FWIW, I traded a 2016 with 3.21 for the 2019 with 3.92. There is absolutely no comparison between how it hauls my farm equipment or Rinker. Where I live in Ky. it's rolling hills and the 3.21 truck was constantly shifting whereas I can haul my tractor and bush hog 88 miles to my lake house and it down shifts once, that's crossing the Ky River bridge. It's like a completely different truck, and both have the 8 speed automatic which came out around 2014? maybe?

Again, thanks for the response.