new with question (first of many to come!)

AZmom wrote:
First of all: HELLO! My small family (me, husband, 1 kid) are planning to purchase a 28-30 foot travel trailer. Exciting!

I'm hoping for some sage advice. We are looking at buying a 2012 Toyota Tundra sr5 5.7L V8 but upon double checking I found it is rated to tow 9000 pounds.

Other option is F150 which says it is rated to 11000 pounds. But it won't fit in our garage which is why I nixed it. (If you are shaking your head you are in agreement with my husband.)

I am personally not interested in the Chevy so I nixed that as well.

Does anybody tow a similar size vehicle with a Tundra? I think the weight of the trailers are 7000. I get that we'll be adding weight and that we should be considerably under max capacity. I've read the articles on how to calculate all the ratios and whatnot. Greek to me.

I could leave all this research up to my husband who is considerably more intelligent than I, but I'm a control freak (there, I said it).

I can't seem to wrap my mind around this behemoth of a truck not pulling a TT. Am I overlooking something or will I need to come to terms with a monster F150 not fitting in our garage?

I'm towing a 35 ft Windjammer trailer, about 8,000 lbs fully loaded with my 5.7 V8 Tundra and it does fine. When you look at trailers, ignore the "dry weight" and look at the Gross Weight. The dry weight is meaningless. The limiting factor on all the 1/2 ton trucks is the payload rating. The tongue weight and everything you put in the truck subtracts from your payload rating. You didn't say if you're looking at a Double Cab or Crew Max Tundra, but the Double Cab has more payload.