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MitchF150
Dec 16, 2014Explorer III
Dan, you are asking a lot from a standard tow package F150 where you are giving up #500 of GVWR compared to a Max Tow package...
While you have a #9000 tow rating, that assumes you don't put anything in the truck besides yourself... So, right there, anything else you add to the truck takes away from that "tow rating"..
It's been a very heated discussion over the years on this site if you can run over or under your trucks GVW ratings and payload.... ;)
There are some that think if you go #100 over, you are a danger to your family and every other family out on the road..
There are some that think you can be over, but as long as you aren't over your axle/tire ratings you are fine..
Therein lies the rub to this whole "rving" thing.. ;)
What ratings do you believe?? Well, you just have to believe in what you believe and rely on your own experience and common sense and go from there.. :)
Reading posts from the "interweb" will only confuse you more if you don't have a clue either way, so not much to say there...
IMO, you are taking on a very tall challenge and not giving yourself much wiggle room to be essentially "full timing" for over a year and traveling all over the US, including Alaska!
The bike is going to be your biggest weight penalty. Sure, you can get a Toy Hauler trailer, but those are pretty heavy before you put anything in it, due to it needed to be a much HD setup to handle the "toys"..
With what I've towed and traveled with from coast to coast over the years in my younger days when none of this "weight" stuff came into play at all and all I was doing was moving equipment trailers from site to site using an E250 Van and overloaded trailers and getting paid $15/hour to do it I learned a lot with what you can get away with and what you can't! ;)
I never had an accident or anything, but there was some wild rides for sure!
Anyway, what you have in mind sounds good on paper, but is gonna be hard to make happen in this day and age...
I wish you the best and hope you are able to find a workable solution!
Mitch
While you have a #9000 tow rating, that assumes you don't put anything in the truck besides yourself... So, right there, anything else you add to the truck takes away from that "tow rating"..
It's been a very heated discussion over the years on this site if you can run over or under your trucks GVW ratings and payload.... ;)
There are some that think if you go #100 over, you are a danger to your family and every other family out on the road..
There are some that think you can be over, but as long as you aren't over your axle/tire ratings you are fine..
Therein lies the rub to this whole "rving" thing.. ;)
What ratings do you believe?? Well, you just have to believe in what you believe and rely on your own experience and common sense and go from there.. :)
Reading posts from the "interweb" will only confuse you more if you don't have a clue either way, so not much to say there...
IMO, you are taking on a very tall challenge and not giving yourself much wiggle room to be essentially "full timing" for over a year and traveling all over the US, including Alaska!
The bike is going to be your biggest weight penalty. Sure, you can get a Toy Hauler trailer, but those are pretty heavy before you put anything in it, due to it needed to be a much HD setup to handle the "toys"..
With what I've towed and traveled with from coast to coast over the years in my younger days when none of this "weight" stuff came into play at all and all I was doing was moving equipment trailers from site to site using an E250 Van and overloaded trailers and getting paid $15/hour to do it I learned a lot with what you can get away with and what you can't! ;)
I never had an accident or anything, but there was some wild rides for sure!
Anyway, what you have in mind sounds good on paper, but is gonna be hard to make happen in this day and age...
I wish you the best and hope you are able to find a workable solution!
Mitch
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