Light weight 5r that can hold a motorcycle?

kaydeejay wrote:

ZagiFlyer wrote:
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I still have my Chevy 2500HD with the 6.0L gasser, so my max trailer GVWR is 10,500 lb.

Your max trailer is NOT 10,500#.
First of all, that number is reduced by every pound in the truck over a 150# driver.
Secondly, any fifth wheel is going to put 20% of it's loaded weight on the pin. What is your truck's Payload rating? It's too old for the "Tire Loading Information" label so subtract it's "Loaded for travel" weight from your GVWR (on your door label).
What's left is what you can carry in terms of hitch and pin weights.
Probably find you can pull more of a TT than you can a fiver.

• My payload is rated somewhere between 3,000 and 4,000 pounds, so I'm not constrained there (20% of 10,400 is ~2,000).
  
  
• Documentation for the truck states a fifth-wheel limit of 10,400 lb (my original post was off by 100#).
  
  
• I've got over 40,000 miles of towing my existing rig, which is in the same weight class, with no issues whatsoever. Emergency stops? No problem. Emergency traffic maneuvers? Easy-peesy. Steep grades (8%)? Got it covered. So I'm completely confident that a 5r at or under 10,400 will be completely safe.