cefloyd 1961 wrote:
wow from reading all this I might need a new truck lol Im pulling a 40 ft sandpiper with a hd2500 ex cab 6.0 motor and heavy duty tranny with 410 gears and a pullright 15k hitch and the weight on the scales of my truck is 6065lbs. my dry weight is 10983lbs and my gvwr is 14175lbs and hitch weight is 2175lbs and on the sticker on my truck it says cargo weight 2543 The guy at the camper store said I would be fine so far so good what do you all
think
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If the GCVWR (not GVWR) of your vehicle is 14175 then your combined weight (truck and trailer) should not exceed that. With a truck weight of 6062 your loaded trailer should weigh no more than 8113 lbs. With a normal loaded trailer of abt 1500 lbs of "stuff" added to your dry weight of 10,983 I would say your over by about 4300 lbs.
The truck can handle the hitch weight but the combined is way over.
