Towing Capacity for New Travel Trailer

kenm500 wrote:
I am currently looking to purchase a new Travel Trailer. My current trailer, a Keystone Bullet 246RBS, has a dry wt of 4800lbs. I tow it with a 2013 Ram 1500, which is rated between 8400lbs and 9700lbs depending on the chart you use. Seems as even the dealers have a hard time answering the actual towing capacity question. The truck has no problems towing the current trailer, but I'm looking at a new trailer which is 5 ft longer and has a dry weight of 6100lbs. Should I be concerned that the weight with gear and such is getting to close to the capacity of the truck? Obviously I would prefer not to upgrade to a 2500.

In 2016 we purchased 2 new trucks .First was 1500 cc sb 4x4 ram rated to tow 10,200# purchased OR 274 RLS 6710# Dry wt. Towed-with this for 1500 mi.not pleasant.6 mo later traded for 3500 ram 6.7 cc lb 4x4 . Now we can tow and not worry & what a difference. I decided to skip the 2500 to future proof any later tt up grades. Every dealer both tt sales and truck dealer & OR manufacturer all stated the 1500 would be fine match for the 274RLS. Not True
Your not gonna band aid the 1500 up to tow ( air bags , expensive wd hitches) as I have tried. I am pretty sure there's people out there that won't agree with my opinion. Your spending a lot of money you need to be happy. I hope you are

Good luck