OMG!!! Thank you friends for my education.

"IF" the op has not figured it out yet, she will be one or two chassis sizes heavier trying to do what she wants than a couple or family of say 4. With 4 adult sized teens, one can expect to have 800 to 1200 even 1300 lbs of people weight in the rig before adding hitch weight! At least "MY" family of 6 was in the 1200-1300 lb range with clothes, and other assorted goodies that went into the cab with them. Not that ea one had an I phone or equal back in the 90's, still one had a book or two per child, a pair or two of binoculars so they could see things out of the truck etc. Add in my crossbed tool box at 300 lbs or so, a rack with a canoe, on it, two malamutes in crates in the bed. Sometimes a bike or 5 or 6......I was 2500 lbs MORE than the empty wt of my truck, Add in the 700-750 lbs of HW. my 6500 lb diesel crew cab was in the mid 9000 lbs range. typically 5000-5600 lb the rear, and 4300-4500 on the front. That is a single rear wheel rig. Trailer was 26' and around 6500 +- to a low of 6000 to 6700 on the high end axel wt wise.

Get a truck that will work, not one the sales folks want to sell you!

marty