Truck Camper and TT Combo
Not sure where to ask this, so I'm starting here. Thanks in advanced. We have a 2014 RAM 3500 Cummins SRW with about 4,300lb payload. Our current travel trailer is 4,300 empty, 6,000lb GVWR. We...
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jaycocreek wrote:
Lots of people around here load up there pickup with a cord or more of wood and pull there camp trailers...Maybe 3000# give or take in the pickup bed and a camp trailer...Those with duallies usually carry 1.5 cords plus the trailer...Never seen one with issues..It's just a common thing in these parts..
I've been carrying 4300 lb of gravel on my F250 as all the time.
The difference is that I could shovel the gravel to put load COG close behind the cabin and I drove it at lower speeds on short distance.
TC has fixed COG, so you can't transfer more of its weight on front axle and we tend to drive those sets long hr at high speeds.
Tires can take even 3 times the nominal load when rolling, but it is heat generated with overload and high speed that will kill them.
