Towing heavy with a single wheel 3500
I'm looking at possibly upgrading to a larger and heavier fiver in the future (Columbus 385BH or similar) and each one is right around 13k dry/15k GVW, some pushing 16k gross. My current fiver is arou...
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If you can not stop 5 tons with out an exhaust brake, somewhere some brakes are not working up to snuff! I've upwards of 6 tons and 2K in the bed of a sw truck, and had no issues stopping, EXCEPT, when the trailer brakes were not adjusted correctly! I've never owned a rig with an exhaust brake, altho have used them. Yes they do help, but if the brakes could not stop the load in a legal or safe amount of time, I was not going to depend on the exhaust brake to get me there. I had other issues to worry about.
Back to initial question. Can you tow heavy with a SW truck. Sure, but like all things great and small, are the design limits of the thing capable of handling the loads involved. This includes chassis, drivetrain, suspension etc. There are class 8 tandems axel rigs with 17K per axel running with singles. so you can get tires rated to 21K in a legal and engineer rated to max axel load limits.
Marty
Back to initial question. Can you tow heavy with a SW truck. Sure, but like all things great and small, are the design limits of the thing capable of handling the loads involved. This includes chassis, drivetrain, suspension etc. There are class 8 tandems axel rigs with 17K per axel running with singles. so you can get tires rated to 21K in a legal and engineer rated to max axel load limits.
Marty
