Truck for a 5000# travel trailer
This is my first post to this forum. I'm sure many of you have seen this type of question posted before, but I'd appreciate your input. My wife and I retired last year and bought a 2011 Gulf Stream...
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I had a Dodge Ram 1500 with the 360 (5.9L) engine and automatic transmission.
I was mostly happy with it until I took a 7X14 box trailer from here to Sheridan, WY with a bunch of stuff for a Ham radio swapmeet. There are a lot of hills on I-90 in that stretch, and that poor truck struggled all the way.
I sold it and bought an older (1999) Ram 2500 with the 24 valve Cummins and 5 speed manual transmission.
Now, the truck pulls hills like a locomotive, trailer or no trailer, loaded or empty. I (and the truck) are very happy!
IMO, for pulling power a diesel can't be beat!
I was mostly happy with it until I took a 7X14 box trailer from here to Sheridan, WY with a bunch of stuff for a Ham radio swapmeet. There are a lot of hills on I-90 in that stretch, and that poor truck struggled all the way.
I sold it and bought an older (1999) Ram 2500 with the 24 valve Cummins and 5 speed manual transmission.
Now, the truck pulls hills like a locomotive, trailer or no trailer, loaded or empty. I (and the truck) are very happy!
IMO, for pulling power a diesel can't be beat!
