SRW Truck Max length 5th Wheel

CarnationSailor wrote:

draknor wrote:

DanDon wrote:
Again looking for people who have done it. I understand that DRW would be better but a 1 ton truck is about 6-8k more and that puts the trailer out of reach money wise. We already have the truck ordered. It gets here next week. Its a 2015 2500HD Silverado SRW crew cab with 4WD and Duramax Diesel. Payload is 3000 lbs. Towing capacity is 17,700 lbs.

We're looking at TVs and TTs/FW as well, so I've been trying to figure out the same kinds of things you're looking at!

I looked a Chevy's site for the 2015 Silverado 2500HD. I clicked on the Capabilities tab, and added the Crew Cab, standard box, Duramax 6.6L 4WD - should be pretty much what you've got, right?

Scroll down and expand the "Trailering and Payload" - here's the numbers I see:
Max GVWR: 10,000 lbs
Curb weight: 7384 lbs
Max Payload: 2793 lbs

So that's pretty close to your stated 3000 lbs payload figure. (You may have already done this research, but there's a lot of speculation on this thread about what your numbers actually are, so hopefully this helps).

Allow a couple hundred lbs for family / cargo, and let's say your max pin weight is 2500 lbs. Given the typical 20-25% pin weight for 5ers, and you are looking at a max FW trailer weight of 10-12.5k lbs (to remain within GVWR). Obviously this is well under the stated max trailer weight of 17.1k lbs - but you'd have to have payload capacity of >3400 lbs to carry 20% of that max trailer weight and stay under GVWR.

These kinds of numbers drive me bonkers :?

I'm also a little jealous. I've been looking at the '06-era Dodge Ram Megacabs, and I wouldn't get that much payload even with a 3500 SRW w/ 4WD :(

I also checked out the Chevy website for the 2015 Silverado 2500HD, Crew Cab, standard box, Duramax 6.6L 4WD and was expecting a payload of 2793 pounds. When my truck arrived, the sticker payload was listed at 2300 pounds. I still can't figure out where the 493 pounds of payload went. I have the LTZ trim package and the Z71 option. The Z71 option should add no more than 75 pounds. I can't believe the LTZ trim package added 400 pounds. ?????