Pickup truck tow vehicle stability tests

IdaD wrote:

NC Hauler wrote:

IdaD wrote:
My problem with a DRW truck would be driving it offroad while camping, fishing or hunting. A full size truck is already a handful on many of those roads, but a duelly would be even worse. Plus they just don't perform that well on certain surfaces. If you're going to go DRW you pretty much need to go with a toy hauler so you can bring a Ranger (or equivalent) along.

And at the end of the day you can pull plenty of trailer with a SRW truck - anything that actually requires DRW would be too large to get into any good camping spots.

Never had a problem finding a camping spot with my almost 40' 5er hooked to my long bed crew cab dually....but maybe that's just where I go camping...Off road, I have no need to go "off road", though I have been in 10-12" of snow and truck did fine...been in some muddy fields and though the truck got EXTREMELY muddy, it got me in and out....(glad my dually doesn't know it's not supposed to be able to go good in the snow and/or mud):).

IF I were to go to a TH, wouldn't be to tow any "toy's" in the back, would be more for storage and exercise equipment.....:)

The difference is probably that you're in North Carolina and I'm in Idaho. The terrain is a little different out here. :C

I've never been in what I call the flatland, I know the mountains in the east can't hold a candle to the mountains in the west...I know because I've been told time and time and time again...but I tow in the mountains of WV, TN, NC and VA...and guess till you've done it, you'll figure there is nothing to it....Some of the secondary roads in these 4 states are ess curve after ess curve after ess curve, up and down and all around on the secondary roads...So, unless you've driven to a trout stream atop Spruce Knob Lake in WVA, or towed the BlueRidge Parkway to Mt. Mitchell, (highest mountain EAST of the Mississippi), then I guess all we can do is speculate....but believe me, we have some pretty steep, narrow, roads in these remote areas also, and very rare you run into long straight stretches...Even 7% grades on some of the interstates...all that to say....it can be just as hard to get into places in the mountains of NC, VA, TN and WVa I would imagine.......) Our terrain can also get rather ugly also.....You have beautiful country I hope one day to visit, but mountains not as high, still rugged in these mountains also.