A DRW truck is overkill for our needs. It would make sense with a 11' camper with a dry weight of 4,000 lbs. but that is a lot bigger camper than we need.
Adding 20 gallons of diesel adds an additional 140 lbs. of weight which is trivial. An extra passenger in the cab can add a lot more weight than that.
If DRW trucks were without serious drawbacks everyone would be driving one, but instead I see a tiny fraction of the pickups on the highway with DRW. Even with 5th-wheel travel trailers there are 4 people pulling them with a SRW truck for every 1 person I see using a DRW truck.
The ONLY place I see DRW trucks used in numbers is when pulling large and very heavy 5th-wheel horse trailers.
