Pickup truck tow vehicle stability tests

AH64ID wrote:

Cummins12V98 wrote:
When traveling West on I-10 where the windmills are with the SRW I could feel the wind whenever it was blowing. With the Dually I rarely feel the wind there I have to look at the foliage along the road to see if it is windy.

Which is interesting, as I rarely feel the wind in my SRW. The only time I can really feel it is when there are large gust spreads... which are the same kind of gusts that I feel towing or not, and the kind that will actually try to open the door with the wind across the roof.

goducks10 wrote:
So it boils down to a wash depending on who you agree with. And add into it that a 2500 is the same as a 3500 sans rear springs. So in that sense a 2500 could tow what a DRW does. That makes sense doesn't it? :)

Heck my 3500 SRW has a higher tow rating than a DRW of the same year/gear. It just depends on what is being towed if you can actually get there with a stock SRW.

I have no clue what an 05 3500 SRW truck could tow or an 05 DRW truck (Dodge), could tow..but I DO know that there IS a difference between the NEWER 13's and up's..and a 2015 Ram 3500 SRW truck with 3:42 can't touch what my dually with 4:10 can tow....

Most are talking new/newer trucks now, unless someone comes along to compare older model trucks....
Goducks pretty much hit it...yeah per most who own a 2500, it's EXACTLY the same as a 3500SRW truck.....soo......and of course the 3500 SRW truck is the same as a dually, except for the 4 wheels:R...don't know much about Ford or Chevy now, but one can crawl underneath a new Ram 2500, Ram 3500 SRW and a new Ram 3500 dually and literally SEE a difference, but no one is going to believe that....wished I'd just purchased a nice 2500, it'll do everything my 3500 dually will do...cept for payload, cept for RAWR, cept for GCWR, but other than that.....they're the same:)