What am I missing on GVWR??
I have a Ram 3500 SRW crew cab short box. The door sticker shows GVWR as 10,100lbs. The front axle max weight is 5200, Rear 6200. Truck weight 7300lbs (diesel). I thought the calculation to carry ...
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Grit dog wrote:
Honestly, it doesn't drive or tow much different at all. But towing a 3ton boat is easier on the vehicle than hauling an 8' wide X 12' tall box.
Agreed. Boat trailers generally have about half the tongue weight as a utility trailer of the same total weight. Plus boat trailers are generally longer, have the axle farther back, have a lower CG, a much reduced cross wind load, etc for the same weight.
We used to tow our single axle bass boat behind our srw truck/tc and I couldn't really tell it was back there except when we were stopping. I wasn't expecting a huge difference when we towed our jeep on a car hauler trailer (7,500 lbs)......wrong. It had a lot more tongue weight and put a lot more weight on our rear axle due to the 24" extension. It put our rear tires very close to their rated capacities. Plus, it wasn't much fun to drive.
Our situation had changed so we didn't need to use our 1-ton truck as a daily driver any more so we decided our next truck would be a drw.
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