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No pictures but our friends were in Alaska for a couple months and heading back to their home in Maine, they stopped by for a few days. We were talking about TC's in Alaska and they mentioned right...
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JimK-NY wrote:WyoBull wrote:
I would go one step up the stream and hold the manufacturers accountable for this. ............
I discussed the size and weight of the camper with my RV dealer. He talked me out of considering a dually and claimed a 3/4 ton was fine. That was before I owned a truck. Then I went shopping for trucks at Ford, Chevy and Dodge. All the sales reps told me a 3/4 ton would be just fine to handle the weight. So it is not just the manufacturers, it seems to be RV dealers and truck salesmen are just as ignorant.
I finally weighed the rig and found all the weight estimates were grossly under. I have been running about 15 percent over the load limit of the rear tires and am now upgrading to 19.5 wheels and tires.
I agree with you. They all bear responsibility in this area. If my salesman would have been more educated when we were talking about what I was going to do with the truck when we were ordering it, he would have steered me toward an F350 and not the F250 I ended up trading after one year and 11,000 miles.
After my experience and all the research I have done throughout this process, I feel pretty strongly that I have more knowledge now than the majority of them selling both the trucks and campers. That education cost me some money but hey, college cost me a lot more!
