So my wife and I became camper people about a month after I purchased my 2104 Regular Cab Silverado. Our 'yellow sticker' camper weight is 7800 so even loaded I was well withing my trucks specificati...
Back in the day, we really needed to shift some of the weight to the front axle of our Buicks and Fairlanes. It got to be an automatic add on for the trailer dealers. Some light duty pickups still need to unload the rear axle, many don't. I have towed thousand of miles with F-250 and 2500HD's with none of the much feared bounce or loss of front tire contact. I will go with what GM engineers say that their pickups "require".