new to forum with a few questions -Ram 1500

icanon wrote:

Wishin wrote:

Fastfwd75 wrote:
How can you have only 500-600 for hitch weight? Are you carrying something heavy in the bed? You will see a lot of people overweight from pulling 5er on a 4 door 150/1500 truck. Usually you would think that most bumper pulls would be fine for a recent truck.

The payload on even a too well equipped(crew,4x4,etc.) F150 would be 1500lbs+; probably similar for Dodge.

Hitch is limited to 500lbs without WDH but a lot more than that with. Both trailers are 6500lbs max fully loaded with 10-15% going to the hitch so at worse ~1000lbs. You will want a weight distributing hitch but it should be OK if there is nothing else in the trucks bed and not too many heavy people in it.

You would be surprised at how little payload a Ram 1500 can have if well optioned. 1500 lbs might be the upper limit if you're lucky while I've seen as little as around 850 lbs on Hemi and diesel models that were loaded with all the goodies.

Your correct mine (Ram) has a max payload of 1281 lbs (that's with cargo and passengers), so with everything calculated I keep my TW within limits, I'm usually around 80-100lbs under my max. I am very strict about my TW I check with my Sherline scale each time before I venture out, o/w I relocate stuff in TT to respect my limits.

How do you stay under the limits when the dry hitch weight of the trailer in your profile is 782#, that leaves you only 500# for hitch and the 4 passengers, plus gear?

Thanks for any insight you maybe able to give.
kevin