Right Truck for the job?

Salesmen will tell you any truck 'x' will pull any trailer 'y'. What difficulties did you experience? Sway, lack of power, control, braking, all of the above?

Mostly lag up mountain! I have a sway bar.

I was keeping my rpm at 3 or 4. Should I have pushed it more?

Different people have different comfort levels while towing.
What was the issue? What hitch did you get?
You are at the max and still in the rating so maybe an adjustment is needed.

Do you know how heavy your camper is loaded? That v-6 is pretty decent. Maybe just pulls at a higher rpm. 3-4k rpm will not hurt it.

I rejected the Canyon, Colorado, Traverse and Acadia for exactly the reason you have now experienced. Not adequate to tow my 2015 Winnebago 2101DS. Your only option is to move up.

"of course we were told this truck would work."

There are some you listen to closely and follow their advice. Then there are RV sales people where you verify everything they say.

What truck did you get?

Julie, if your post is directed to me, 2015 Chevy Tahoe...8,600 pounds to your 7,000. 1,595 payload...more than many 1/2 ton pickups.

JulieMB wrote:
Mostly lag up mountain! I have a sway bar.

Going a bit slow up the mountain should not be a white knuckle experience.

Otherwise you may need a diesel.

I think you are just not used to hearing an engine having to rev at high rpms to get up the grades.. It's usually 'normal' for an engine to do that when it's working hard...

Towing a TT is not like going to the grocery store, so it'll need to work.

You are at the max tow ratings of that truck, so it's gonna have to work to tow it.

Get a little bigger truck, with the same TT and it might not have to work as hard..

Take my setup for example... I've got an F150 that is rated to tow an #11000 TT...

The trailer I tow with it weighs a tad over #5000....

Guess how my towing experience is?? :) :)

Been towing trailers for over 35 years and have towed overloaded from coast to coast back in the day... Long before any of this "tow rating" stuff came into play...

So, you just have to find your own towing comfort level and go from there to match the trailer to the tow vehicle...

It's not always about the vehicles "tow rating", because it ain't the same as going to the store.... ;)

Good luck!

Mitch