What to buy...I need a little advice!
I am buying my 1st RV, and have done lots of looking and thinking but have a basic decision I need help with. My wife and I plan to spend 2-4 months on the road each summer once she retires next y...
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rfloyd99 wrote:
Thanks to all - I have learned a lot, please keep posting!
Have looked at the door sticker, and done more research.
The GVWR is 6700, payload is 1611. Does that mean that I can load the truck with up to 1611 lbs? Made up of the weights of passengers, fuel, tongue wt of trailer, plus anything else carried/added onto/in the truck?
Am I missing anything here?
Close. You need to take your truck to a scale and get the weight with a full tank of gas and no other extras and then subtract that from GVWR. I think the payload of 1611 takes a full tank of gas and a 150 lb driver into account.
In other words, if you can squeak by with 600 lbs for your other passengers and gear ( and whatever you weigh over 150) then you would have 1,000 lbs for tongue weight and weight distribution hitch (100 lbs). A 6,500 lb GVWR travel trailer will be an 850-900 lb tongue weight.
