Just bought a '17 Chevy Silverado 1500

drsteve wrote:

Lwiddis wrote:
Yes, drsteve! Too close for his family.

Not necessarily... Depends if we're talking about a couple of small adults and a pair of third graders, or large adults with linebacker sized teenage sons .

BenK wrote:
Stand by the info on HOW2 in previous post and stress that the OP go out and actually weigh her TV while fully loaded ready to go RV'ing...then do the dimple math

BenK has it right... load the truck up with the family and cargo, go to the scales, and find out how much it all weighs, and figure out how much capacity is left for tongue and hitch weight. Do this before purchasing a trailer.

That's exactly where my family is. Use to have just me and DW with a couple light weight kids in the back seat. Now I look in my review mirror and I see two of those linebacker sized teens. Don't worry though. The truck will lighten itself up in a few years when they head off to college. Maybe we will get a dog then. Shouldn't have any trouble with a couples trailer then.

Life is a grand adventure, nothing stays the same forever.

Hold the ones you love because soon they will leave. They will never remember how much money you spent or didn't spend on stuff, they will remember if you were there for them or not.

Thanks,

Jeremiah