weight of trailer and truck size
I just purchased a new 2017 Chevy Silverado 4wd 1500 double cab pickup with the standard bed. It has the 5.3 V8 and towing package with built in brake controller 3.42 axle. The GVWR is 72000. Accordin...
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Dog Trainer wrote:Not wanting to be argumentative, but I will anyways. I'll bet you a $1,000 I can tow that trailer with that truck "safely" for the next 10 years.troubledwaters wrote:
People jumping to conclusions without having the most basic of information, like Payload Rating for starters.
OP, you can research this and come to some very sound conclusions for yourself by checking out this site. clicky
Your going to need the payload rating, FAWR and RAWR on your truck from the yellow sticker on the door; then your going to need to know some basic info on the TT. You will have to make some reasonable assumptions about how you will be loading the TT and truck (both cargo and people). Lacking all this information, everything else is just jumping to conclusions.
No conclusions to Jump to. That truck will not safely tow the trailer the OP is asking about. So spend all the time you want researching it but the short answer to the OP'S question is too much trailer for that truck.
But that is not the real answer is it; and what does "safely" mean. I at least gave the OP the basis for real information to arrive at his own fact based conclusions. Everybody else gave him nothing.
