DRW vs. SRW for towing fivers
Has anyone towed fivers with both DRW and SRW pickups? I currently have a F350 diesel DRW, and I'm looking to get a new F350 but I'm debating on the rear wheel config. Ease of parking and maneuvering...
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I have towed our 39'8" Grand Junction with both. Well, kind of. First had a 2010 6.4 F250 with airbags. As many will attest to in here, both salespeople said it would tow anything! Well, it towed it just fine, but couldn't carry it just fine. In all honesty though, it did seem to me to be fine. I didn't have a problem driving it over the mountain passes out here in the PNW. when I finally weighed the 5'er, found out we were about 1000lbs over the payload and 400lbs or so over the RAWR, plus over the GCVWR. Being over in one by a bit, maybe not too bad, but all three???????? And I hadn't added the extra batteries or W/D yet.
On our fourth trip out, coming home from CA back to WA, we stopped in Vegas and I traded it in for a 2011 F350 dually. Both were 4x4, LB, 4 door big trucks! Got a great deal there, so traded it in on the spot.
You could tell a difference just leaving the lot. Bit more "big truck" like feel. Even my wife could tell the difference out on the road sitting in the passenger seat. Cant say that the dogs cared one way or the other though....:)
I had thought that the 250 towed it just fine. Not till you try the same trailer, windy mountain roads, do you really feel much difference. It isn't like night and day, but it is there.
To me, the bottom line is if you need it for carrying capacity, you get a dually. If not, personal preference. Nothing wrong with having a bit of extra capacity.
It is my daily driver. Not an issue at all, but then the truck at work I drove for 24 years is a 40ft, 9 1/2ft wide straight frame fire truck....YMMV.
On our fourth trip out, coming home from CA back to WA, we stopped in Vegas and I traded it in for a 2011 F350 dually. Both were 4x4, LB, 4 door big trucks! Got a great deal there, so traded it in on the spot.
You could tell a difference just leaving the lot. Bit more "big truck" like feel. Even my wife could tell the difference out on the road sitting in the passenger seat. Cant say that the dogs cared one way or the other though....:)
I had thought that the 250 towed it just fine. Not till you try the same trailer, windy mountain roads, do you really feel much difference. It isn't like night and day, but it is there.
To me, the bottom line is if you need it for carrying capacity, you get a dually. If not, personal preference. Nothing wrong with having a bit of extra capacity.
It is my daily driver. Not an issue at all, but then the truck at work I drove for 24 years is a 40ft, 9 1/2ft wide straight frame fire truck....YMMV.
