Can you really tow a fiver with a 1/2 ton?
Jayco says these fifth wheels are "half-ton towable": http://www.jayco.com/products/fifth-wheels/2017-eagle-ht-fifth-wheels/floorplans-and-prices/ They seem to all be < 10,000 lbs GVWR. I'm l...
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fireman41 wrote:drittal wrote:
I wouldn't be towing a 12,000lb anything with a 5,000lb aluminum truck.
My semi truck has a aluminum frame and cab and any other part that could be made out of aluminum. It weighs in at 18500 lbs and I pull a tanker that weighs 51000 lbs when it's empty. My light weight truck handles the weight just as well as a heavy W900 or 379.
And if your wondering the trailer will hold 9000 lbs of liquid hydrogen or about 1.8 million standard cubic feet of gas .
Your semi has has close to 50% of that 60,000 on its axles (depending on where the trailer axles are), and your truck axles outweigh your trailer axles. that's a lot different than a the case of an already light weight F150 towing a 5th where only 20% of the weight goes to the pin.
Being that you drive it and scale it, you can probably tell exactly how much is put on your tractor axles and trailer axles.
In any case, your semi has more weight on its axles than your trailer, giving it more control and stability than 5hat of an F150 trying to tow 12,000 lbs.
If you're wondering I used to haul bulk fuel for Exxon, then went on to hauling over 17,000 tons with 12,000hp but I only had to worry about stopping that. :) you start planning stops 10 miles in advance, get out of power into dynamic 4 miles out and start braking 2 miles out. That's on level ground.
