Just bought a '17 Chevy Silverado 1500

Greene728 wrote:
My Lord y'all are totally confusing this woman!
Excellent job on correcting Lwiddis too!
You are doing a great thing by looking for a good match to your truck in a RV. Nothing sucks worse than a bad towing experience and getting to your destination and being mentally exhausted from the RV driving the truck. Based on your trucks specs, I'd say be looking at something in the 20-26ft range with a max weight of maybe 6000 pounds (give or take a smidge). Anything less than this is even better. At this weight range and under, you should be fine on all weights. I will recommend one thing right out of the gate though. If the truck came with P rated tires, look very seriously at swapping them out for an LT tire that will provide a much better towing experience. If it came with LT tires then your already good to go! And when looking at RV's never use the UVW. Always use the GVWR or max weight. That is worse case scenario and anything under that is just weight to the good. Remember, you'll never tow or use your RV empty, so really it's a useless number.
Good Luck!

Thank you!
and I'll look into the tires.
I am actually "looking" at a 17'(im sure around 19) Jayco 17hb
or a coachman Clipper 17 BH

GeoBoy wrote:
CherylH, how many people in the trailer? How long will you be out with the trailer, traveling?

2 adults
3 children
child 1 is 6
child 2 is 13 but under 100 lbs
child 3 is 17 but shes part time (lives with mom) and is probably 150 lbs

We live in NE and plan on traveling to CA with trailer.

Lwiddis wrote:
Chery, snug it up right at the max? Not me....that's your family in that TV with you.

Follow the Dutchman: "You really need to think in terms of what is the ultimate extreme usage you'll be experiencing with your truck, not what is the lightest usage and hope it's OK when the extreme happens."

You literally are not understanding what I am doing so maybe you should go to another post and help someone else ?

jerem0621 wrote:

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

Thanks! You are so right!