To TC'ers who have bought new trucks

Bedlam wrote:

Kayteg1 wrote:
Is it 6000lb dry, or loaded?
That is roughly what I have since my camper scaled 4200 winterized and no propane.
I bought it with F250, although after seeing what load that thing put on my rear wheels it was a bit scary.
On my F450 I was putting 10,000 lb on the bed more than once.
Think about those 11,000 forklifts.
But it had 19.5 " wheels.

I'm looking double and triple slides with dry baths and side entries. 6K lbs should be when wet and loaded, but I will have 1k lbs in tongue weight on top of what ever I am carrying.

My 5500 has about 9k lbs payload according to the GVWR. The Dana S14-111L has enough capacity to carry it all on the rear.

I see several potential problems with this setup.
When your camper might be close to the weight of mine, my dually has long wheelbase, so camper's rear center of gravity is offset by that.
But you need to add extension for the trailer hitch?
So 1000 lb tongue weight placed 4-6 feet behind rear axle can take almost all weight from front axle even without a camper.
Even F450 are build with long rear overhang and only F550 per my observation don't have that problem.
Than it applies to years I am familiar with what is 90's till 2007.
Don't know if newer F350/3500 and F450/5500 are build for carrying rear weight.