Lets see your campers being towed
#1632
Senior Member
#1635
Senior Member
> GCWR – the loaded truck plus the loaded trailer
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> GVWR – the trucks ability rating to haul. # of pounds it weighs at full load
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> Payload Rating – trucks load carrying capability – GVWR-vehicle weight (from scale ticket)
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> GVWR – the trailers max permitted weight, usually based on wheels, tires and axles installed
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> Payload Rating – trailers load carrying capability – GVWR-trailer weight (from scale ticket)
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> Real world example – you can use your own numbers
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> If you look in my album there is a picture of my former truck and trailer.
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> Truck weight from scale = 9990#
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> Truck GVWR = 14500#
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> Truck payload = 4510#
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> Truck GCWR = 29000#
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> Trailer weight – also from scale = 17200#
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> Trailer loaded – 18100#
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> Trailer hitch weight - 4000#
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> Hooked up – truck and trailer - #28800
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> Truck GVWR – load leaves 500# for other crap
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> GCWR – actual = 200# (since identical trucks in later years were rated for 33000# this was only a concern as far as sticker information)
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> *
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> If you have done all this math and studied the results then you are not ready to buy a truck, a trailer, or go anywhere.
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> When I towed prior to this with gas engines I found they just didn’t do it well. My 01 F150 SCREW 4.6 couldn’t handle a 4000# Jayco light wgt. I bought my 2003 F250 6.0 before we even got the 30’ Pilgrim.
>
> GVWR – the trucks ability rating to haul. # of pounds it weighs at full load
>
> Payload Rating – trucks load carrying capability – GVWR-vehicle weight (from scale ticket)
>
> *
>
> GVWR – the trailers max permitted weight, usually based on wheels, tires and axles installed
>
> Payload Rating – trailers load carrying capability – GVWR-trailer weight (from scale ticket)
>
> *
>
> Real world example – you can use your own numbers
>
> *
>
> If you look in my album there is a picture of my former truck and trailer.
>
> *
>
> Truck weight from scale = 9990#
>
> Truck GVWR = 14500#
>
> Truck payload = 4510#
>
> Truck GCWR = 29000#
>
> *
>
> Trailer weight – also from scale = 17200#
>
> Trailer loaded – 18100#
>
> *
>
> Trailer hitch weight - 4000#
>
> *
>
> Hooked up – truck and trailer - #28800
>
> *
>
> Truck GVWR – load leaves 500# for other crap
>
> GCWR – actual = 200# (since identical trucks in later years were rated for 33000# this was only a concern as far as sticker information)
>
> *
>
> If you have done all this math and studied the results then you are not ready to buy a truck, a trailer, or go anywhere.
>
> *
>
> When I towed prior to this with gas engines I found they just didn’t do it well. My 01 F150 SCREW 4.6 couldn’t handle a 4000# Jayco light wgt. I bought my 2003 F250 6.0 before we even got the 30’ Pilgrim.
#1637
Senior Member
I started a new thread with a question and not one person ever responded, lol! So we come where the camper experts are I think you can go a few posts without seeing a camper picture, if you're jonesing hard then just go back and look at some old ones, this thread is huge and I'm sure you've forgotten what the first hundred pages of pictures looked like by now.
#1638
Senior Member
I started a new thread with a question and not one person ever responded, lol! So we come where the camper experts are I think you can go a few posts without seeing a camper picture, if you're jonesing hard then just go back and look at some old ones, this thread is huge and I'm sure you've forgotten what the first hundred pages of pictures looked like by now.
#1639
Senior Member
I started a new thread with a question and not one person ever responded, lol! So we come where the camper experts are I think you can go a few posts without seeing a camper picture, if you're jonesing hard then just go back and look at some old ones, this thread is huge and I'm sure you've forgotten what the first hundred pages of pictures looked like by now.