thejustin wrote:
JumboJet wrote:
I saw a person pulling a light weight 18-20' camper trailer the other day with a DRW. I said to myself that some camper dealer told him he needed that dually to pull that camper!
A 3500 SRW with proper equipment can carry some rather large TCs safely. How would I know - I did it for 8 years and thousands of miles.
My new to me DRW (I am now an instant DRW expert BTW - thanks Sleepy) does a great job. The DRW does the job I purchased it for when I hook up the gooseneck and tow my Case 450B dozer.
Nothing wrong with using a DRW to pull a lighter trailer. It is always a good thing having more truck than trailer than vice versa. I've seen a few pop-ups here on the Seward highway being pulled by a DRW truck.
I bought my truck for the trailer/boat I hoped to own someday. Then a few years later I bought a boat...which could have been pulled by a 1/2 ton just fine...but it was easy money for my one ton. Then I finished paying off my 1 ton....and bought a travel trailer (30' cimmaron) that could have been pulled by a 3/4 ton, but still had the bed to pile******in (under a leer 122). Just about 1 year ago, I finally bought a truck camper (AF1150) which would utilize a 1 ton DRW diesel truck. Then I put a trailer behind it. I owned the truck for over 10 years before finally using it's capacity.
No regrets.....
...plenty of times I was very happy to have more truck than I needed.
...and I was pleasantly surprised to finally task my truck to its limits this last month....and have nothing break. 10K of trailer behind over 5K of camper & people/gear. 15mpg over 3K miles up the alcan. Still love my truck. It's been paid off for 5 years now.
Living debt free is awesome (another thread...), having confidence in what your truck can do, and being able to rely on it is priceless. Especially in the middle of nowhere.
