Travel Trailer Weight w/ My Truck

As you will find out a lot of "Can I pull this?" depends on the person driving.

I have seen some rigs that I though were really mismatched, yet the driver though was a sweet combo.

How well it drives is in the opinion of the driver but weight and length means extra wear and tear, how much extra depends how close to or over the max limits you are.

Most folks judge their rig by how comfortable they are driving it.

Tow guides are just that, reference guides. They're only really useful for determining the absolute maximum amount of weight a truck can haul or pull. Often times these numbers are never obtainable due to a number of factors; some beyond the control of the end user like the added weight of factory installed options. The stickers on the inside of the door jamb of the truck and actual scale weights are far more helpful when determining what can be towed or hauled.

https://www.ford.com/resources/ford/general/pdf/towingguides/16RV&TT_Ford_F150_r1_Oct2.pdf

Here's a link to a tow capacity guide. As long as you know your truck's specs, including axle ratio, you should be able to determine your tow and payload capacity.

Good luck

Load the 200 lbs of gear into the TT instead of the bed of the truck. Subtracts 200 lbs from payload and only adds 30 lbs to tongue weight.

1677 lbs CCW
- 700 lbs Cab/Bed
------
977 lbs left of CCW

5595 UVW x 15% Tongue weight = 840 lbs
6495 x 15% Tongue weight = 975 lbs
7495 GVWR x 15% Tongue Weight = 1125

977-840= 137 spare CCW if trailer is empty
977-975= 2 lbs spare CCW.
977-1125= -147 lbs over CCW if loaded to GVWR


So if you load less than 900 lbs in the trailer, it's possible you will squeak by your CCW limits of your truck. Understand that is that its theoretically possible and will need to be verified by weighing at scales.

My opinion is it won't be any fun to be constantly worried about if you loaded the trailer properly, not being able to add water to the fresh water tanks to take with you without having to pull the calculator out and figure what you have to leave home to feel safe. And it certainly isn't going to be a nice relaxing drive to a wonderful weekend or vacation.

I'd look for something smaller, lighter and shorter that fit the trucks abilities better.

used to be the max tow was only available with the ecoboost, not the V8. I guess that changed?

Terryallan wrote:

Bigdawgwill44 wrote:
Anohther model we found was a connect 241bhk. It is about the same length as the one we were initially looking at but weighs about 800 lbs. less dry.

Lighter is better, If you like the floor plan

Depends on how they made it lighter.

Bigdawgwill44 wrote:
Anohther model we found was a connect 241bhk. It is about the same length as the one we were initially looking at but weighs about 800 lbs. less dry.

Lighter is better, If you like the floor plan

Anohther model we found was a connect 241bhk. It is about the same length as the one we were initially looking at but weighs about 800 lbs. less dry.

Bigdawgwill44 wrote:

Terryallan wrote:
I would ask. What is the rear gear Ratio. Just because it has the max tow package doesn't mean it has the 3.73. If not. You will be pushing it with that trailer.

I have the 3.55 gears

You should be good. The 3.55 while not the best towing gear, is a good in between gear. Look in your manual. It will tell you the towing capacities for your truck. I'm guessing it will be around 8,500 lb. Setup the hitch carefully, get it right. You will know it is there, but then we all do.


Good luck, and have fun