Travel Trailer Towing Recommendations

mkirsch wrote:

valhalla360 wrote:

Grit dog wrote:

You called?
It's fun to see the "you can't haul 4 fat people without exceeding the payload" comments which are (and I use this word cautiously) NEVER backed up by actual reasons why it's a bad idea. Just general supposition.
Just "because that's what the sticker says". Do you ever wonder how the rest of the world survives every day doing work with their half ton trucks? Or is your view so myopic that you literally have trouble even seeing your rear view mirrors?

Yep, the salesman telling you that you can pull what he's trying to sell, surely knows better than the engineer setting the ratings. :S

Fact is most pickups never do any heavy hauling or towing...the proverbial grocery getter. That's how they survive.

If you are over by 100lbs, will the axle instantly snap in half...probably not but it's not a good situation.

Also, WORK is different than towing a camper.

You don't put 3000lbs in the back of a 1/2 ton truck and set out on a 500 mile trip. You drive across town. You don't hitch up to a flatbed trailer loaded with a mini excavator that weighs 12,000lbs and set out on a 500 mile trip. You drive across town.

Half ton trucks will do a LOT of WORK when you don't need to go faster than 35MPH. You'll be smashing your head into the steering wheel after about 2 hours trying to go on a camping trip of any distance limited to 35MPH.

All I can say is that you’re quite uninformed about the industry that builds our nation’s infrastructure.
Either that or I’m dreaming when I’m heading over a mountain pass at 4am loaded for whatever that day will bring, with another 250 miles of windshield time in front of me. Lol.

I don’t think so, though, and probably the other guys I pass who are doing the same thing would disagree with you as well.

You can also note that I never advocate severely overloading although I’ve been known to do it a couple or maybe a couple thousand times. I am providing context that if a truck rated for ____ is actually hauling or towing 1.5x _____, it doesn’t break and it does brake!

And what you also conveniently forgot is that after hearing the whole story from the OP, I actually strongly reccomended against his initial thought of a short wheel base soccer mom rig for the uses he asked about.