Towing Capacity for New Travel Trailer

donn0128 wrote:
I guess soundguy and terryallen did not bother to read my post. I emphitally said " If your truck can safely tow the trailers GVWR, then it should work OK. You may never see the trailers gross weight, but anything lower will be your safety margin."
How much simpler can I say it?

Well I have no idea what "emphitally" means :R but the point is that any 1/2 ton truck save perhaps an F150 ECO equipped with a HD maximum tow package will have anywhere near enough payload capacity to accommodate any trailer with a so-called "dry weight" of 6100 lbs, regardless of what the OP may mean by "dry weight" (he didn't say ) - brochure listed which almost no trailer ever weighs OR this particular trailer's stickered dry weight to which must be added the weight of a battery or batteries, propane in the tanks, and even the weight of a minimal amount of water so the trailer's water system is at least operational. That's ALL before the OP begins to add ANY personal cargo at all. Fact is, it's FAR better to use ANY trailer's "dry weight" to estimate what it will eventually weigh loaded and ready to camp than simply assuming it's GVW loaded and ready to camp will be close to it's GVWR, which in many cases would result in gross trailer tongue weight most 1/2 ton trucks would have no hope of safely handling without exceeding it's GRAWR. :R

I'll repeat - if a trailer's rated CCC means it's GVW loaded and ready to camp will be close to it's GVWR then sure, using GVWR as a guide may be one way of doing it. However, many trailers have such an excessive CCC that there's NO way any reasonable person could load that trailer with so much "stuff" that it's GVW will come anywhere near close to it's GVWR. :E In either case though, starting with the trailer's actual stickered dry weight and then calculating from there will always result in a reasonably accurate estimate of how much that trailer will actually weigh loaded and ready to camp. :B