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6800 GVWR from your sticker minus the 5020 scale weight gives 1780 left over for payload.
Hitch weight can be 10-15% . You can work out the rough numbers but won't be concrete till you have a trailer with it loaded. Also don't forget that you will lose some payload as you load items for camping into your truck.
Sorry to hijack the thread, but I have similar questions. The wife and I are looking at travel trailers right now as well. Everything we like is in the 4500 - 5200 pound dry weight, and between 23 and 28 feet. I filled the truck up with gas and went and had it weighed yesterday with both the wife and I inside. From reading the sticker, I think we have a max payload of 2124. Can anyone chime in on whether or not we can comfortably tow this weight? I know that we will be getting a weight distribution hitch as well, just haven't gotten there yet.
Sorry to hijack the thread, but I have similar questions. The wife and I are looking at travel trailers right now as well. Everything we like is in the 4500 - 5200 pound dry weight, and between 23 and 28 feet. I filled the truck up with gas and went and had it weighed yesterday with both the wife and I inside. From reading the sticker, I think we have a max payload of 2124. Can anyone chime in on whether or not we can comfortably tow this weight? I know that we will be getting a weight distribution hitch as well, just haven't gotten there yet.
Yes, Easily! If you want a very comfortable tow experience, look at GVWR of 7600# or less for the trailer and wont have any issues.
The OP hasn't given enough information about his truck to make an educated guess. What is the GVWR and the payload?
One thing to take into account is that the Weight Distribution Hitch will transfer some of the tongue weight to the trailer axles. In my case, it was 16%.
The OP hasn't given enough information about his truck to make an educated guess. What is the GVWR and the payload?
One thing to take into account is that the Weight Distribution Hitch will transfer some of the tongue weight to the trailer axles. In my case, it was 16%.
Anything over 30' being towed by an F150 would be too much trailer. It just does not have enough mass to counter that length. Weight not withstanding, when you put something that long on a light truck, you set yourself up for a poor experience, the truck just does not have the weight needed to keep it firmly planted with even the best WDH. For anything over 30' in length, you are just better off using a 3/4 or 1 ton.
I am referring only to travel trailers due to their shape. 32' is a lot of wall that wind can easily move around.
Not sure what that means. The truck weighed 120 lbs. less after the WDH bars were cinched up.
How it was explained to me. That the actual tongue weight comes off the payload number regardless of what it is after the bars are cinched up. That the weight will still be on the truck.
I am not an expert. If your right then that makes things better for me in my case then as well
Im following.....looking at trading my 28 to a 35ft.....the worst of my journey will be purchace place to campsite..
2011 Salem 28bhxl to a 2006 outback 31rqs
I see the point of the 35 ft sail behind....not heavy enough truck.......i know i have the payload....
how about extra weight in bed to make truck heavier?.....
It'll be towed twice a year....begining and end of season...
Not to worried about the 35ft
Last edited by Steve Osborne; 03-26-2017 at 06:53 PM.
03-22-2017, 08:38 PM
