Towing Capacity for New Travel Trailer

Gdetrailer wrote:

Terryallan wrote:

donn0128 wrote:
I guess soundguy and terryallen did not bother to read my post. I emphitally said " If your truck can safely tow the trailers GVWR, then it should work OK. You may never see the trailers gross weight, but anything lower will be your safety margin."
How much simpler can I say it?

Or you didn't understand mine. You said to stop being concerned about the dry weight. And to only use the GVWR. However, The GVWR for me is a totally USELESS number. I use the DRY weight to know if I can tow the TT or not. It is all I need to know. Unless it has no CCC.

If I went by the GVWR. there are lots of TT I couldn't tow. Say a TT has a 10000lb GVWR. and I used that for my decision. I couldn't tow it. But if the same TT has a 4800lb Dry weight. I will have no problem towing it. Not a chance I will load 5000lb in the TT.
So. IMOP, and in my experience. The dry yellow sticker weight is much more important than the GVWR. The only time I would worry about the GVWR, is if the dry weight was within 1000lb of the GVWR.

Example. I looked at a TT today with a dry brochure weight of 6300lb. Didn't see the yellow sticker, but believe it will be over 6500lb after propane, and battery. For me that is too much. so end of story.

Doesn't matter what the GVWR is. the dry is too much

In YOUR case, you are correct.

However, not ALL trailers have high CCC ratings, in fact, plenty of trailers have 1,000 lbs OR LESS CCC rating..

My trailer has 1,800 CCC (7000 GVWR - 5200 dry).. In my case (and MOST ALL cases) using the GVWR rating IS GREAT ADVICE and should give the owner some headroom to work with.

For a NOVICE beginner to the world of towing matching via GVWR WILL be easier to figure out than taking dry weight, adding propane, battery, WD into the mix PLUS trying to wrap their heads around ALL of the items they will be putting into said trailer..

As far as GVWR "ruling out" or "limiting" from certain models, I don't see any real issue ESPECIALLY if it is a NOVICE BEGINNER to the world of towing.. Seems like that would be a far safer way to start out for a beginner..

Not sure if I would ever want to meet up with a severely overloaded NOVICE tower and MR Murphy crossed BOTH of our paths at the same time

For a "seasoned veteran" tower like yourself using the dry weight and then counting out the potato chips you can carry certainly is an option..