Bunks vs Bunk House

nickthehunter wrote:
You need to look at the "payload" rating for your truck, it is on the yellow sticker on the door. It will say something like "Gross weight of occupants and cargo should not exceed __________ lbs." That is the number you need to start with to determine how big a TT you can tow.

Disagree ... that sticker number will only give you a rough idea as to what you're dealing with. The key here is to know what your particular truck's real world payload capacity is as it sits there with a full tank of gas ready to be hitched to a trailer. The only way you're going to know that for sure is to go weigh the truck with a full tank and all hitch equipment mounted ... if you don't yet have the weight distribution / sway control equipment allow 100 lbs as an estimate. Go weigh your truck, if you're in it at the time subtract your weight from the scale reading - the result will be your particular truck's actual curb weight, with no one and no cargo in it. Subtract that number from it's GVWR and you'll then have it's actual real world payload capacity. That's the number you're going to use to account for the weight of everyone in the truck, all cargo added to it, PLUS and any trailer tongue weight transferred to the truck once hitched up. Keeping in mind that gross tongue weight should ideally be somewhere in the range of 13% - 14% of the trailer's gross weight as it sits there loaded and ready to camp you may well be shocked at how such little payload capacity will restrict what you can actually safely tow with your truck.