Towing with 1500

RandACampin wrote:

Camper G wrote:
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STOP SHOPPING TTs BY DRY WEIGHTS! They are useless numbers. What is the campers gvwr your looking at? If it's that heavy "dry" i think you'll be at the trucks limits when loaded and I'd not want to work a brand new truck that hard. ....just my .02

This is very bad advice. Going by the CVWR is useless, there are numerous trailers out there that have HUGE CCC for example the Keystone Summerland 2980BHGS. Dry weight 6328 CCC of 3187+715 on the tongue for a total of 10230, witch would exceed the OPs specs. The "accepted norm" for loading 1000-1500 lbs, putting the realistic weight at 7328-7828, well within the OPs limit, Your way...not so much.

So if you went strictly BY GVWR you would rule out a lot of choices because NOBODY except Lucille Ball is going to carry 3K plus pounds of cargo.

Better to use realistic numbers than the GVWR in all cases.

Says you! I think your response is "very bad advice " unless you scale the truck and trailer you don't know what the real numbers are. Much better to error on the side of caution then go by the dry weight when trying to make a decision. I can't tell you how many threads I've read over the past 9yrs here where folks ask "my dry weight is 7000 (example) and my tow rating is 7400 (again example) can i tow this? The answer is almost always no!!

You do what works for you and I'll do the same. My trailers "unladen" weight is 4600 and the gvwr is 6k. GVWR..NOT GCVWR! Read my post. That's 2400lbs. Loaded for a trip with all the gear inside my weight was 5340 lbs so I'm less than 700 lbs from my gvwr. So tell me how "useless" that information is again? If someone is (would be) that close on numbers that your going to make an issue out of this then I'd tell folks they need more truck in my opinion. Utilizing dry weights when trailer shopping can get in-experienced folks in trouble! But that's just my opinion! I've seen it here many times in posts.