Towing heavy with 1500 Ram

With regard to the hitch weight... won't the WDH help spread that weight to some extent over both truck and trailer? It seems so many of the larger "ultra light" trailers even many in 6000# area have hitch weights pushing 1000#.

Largely I agree with the other posters. And nobody even said anything yet about how hard that thing will drink gas with that in tow. Not a doomsdayer here it will do it but would not be the optimum TV for lots of cross country towing with a boxy 33, plus well over 8,000 pounds wet. So you can buy the trailer and move it but will likely later upgrade your TV.

FWIW I tow TTs mostly Airstreams commercially with a Ram 1500 ED. With tune it has the benefit of 70 foot pound of torque over the stock Hemi plus a valuable turbo brake for when that load is pushing you down a mountain not to mention use half the fuel. All that said its still a lot for the 1500 platform. Factory hitch receiver with WDH is rated to 1,290 pounds on the tongue.

You would need a good WDH set up at the scales. If you don't have factory air suspension you would benefit from airbags such as TLC, Timber Grove, or Airlift. Also upgrading from a passenger to a load rated tire will firm up some wiggle.

Daryll was yours an 8 speed with the 3.92?

EDIT MO yea a good WDH set up at the scales should keep you below your 3,900 axle weight ratings or 7,800 combined. I have seen CVWR also important as high as 15,950 on a Ram 1500 but even with the trailer brake controller I wouldn't want to have that pushing me down a mountain without the help of a turbo brake. But if your truck is 6k and trailer 8.5k your at a CVWR of 14,500 which is ok.

I had a very similar truck a few years back and it felt "maxed" out pulling my 7500 lb 31 ft TT. It did the job, I never felt unsafe but on trips with full water or extra firewood etc I was not happy with the power or handling on hills. This is very subjective but I would not contemplate the combo you are considering.

Daryll

Assuming you don't want to exceed the ratings, you are basically going to have to strip everything out of the truck and go to the bathroom before pulling out to stay under the limits on the 1000lb hitch weight trailer. Are you really going to be able to resist putting anything in the bed of the truck when heading out?

Realistically by the time you get up above the mid 20' range, moving up to a 3/4ton for the bigger brakes and heavier suspension starts making a lot of sense...not that I would predict death and destruction if you manage to stay in the ratings.

I won't get into detail on all the reasons why that is not a good combo but the easiest to consider is that once loaded up both those trailers' tongue weights will exceed the trucks hitch receiver rating. then there's the payload, tire, and axle ratings that will likely be exceeded as well. Trailers of that size and weight are well into 3/4 ton territory.

Check other manufacturers with similar layouts as the weights can vary significantly. Those trailers are heavy for their size. My 34' tt is only 6400lbs empty. Same layout with another manufacturer was 1k more.

10K tow rating is NOW based on SAE J2807 Tow Rating Standards adopted in 2013.

The 1600# cargo carrying capacity (payload) is going to get eaten up fast
But with good WDH weight can be distributed across the truck F/R axles and trailer axles

Use 15% of trailers GVWR for guesstimated tongue weights and then see how that matches up in the number crunch

Hang on tight! That is a lot of trailer for any 1/2ton. It will pull it but it will not be fun. the 10k rating is "best case scenario". Such as a flat bed trailer loaded with blocks or something. Something you can load to have perfect weight distribution and no wind resistance. Travel trailers are the far opposite of "best case scenario". They rarely have perfect weight distribution and catch a ton of wind.