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Your truck should be roughly 5600lbs, but estimation doesn't mean jack. Since you are looking at trailers that can and will max out the truck you need to be very careful. Ideally you should try to limit your load to within 5-10% of your GCWR. What you need to do it take your truck to a truckstop or somewhere with a CAT scale and pay the money for a weigh ticket. You need to do this with you in the vehicle and with a full tank of gas. This will give you a fully laden base vehicle weight. The mfg weights are typically only a guess and change on options installed. My door tag on the 250 says I weigh 8600 lbs, but I'm closer to 7k in real life.
It looks as if you're guessing or trying to compute the GCWR for your truck. You can't do that. If you look on your sticker in the door jamb it will list your GVWR and GCWR for your truck. Take your weight you figured out on your truck and subtract that from the GCWR. Then do the same thing for the dry weight of your toy hauler (I saw the shipping weights listed on the websites). As long as those don't send you to a negative number you're fine. Just make sure that you take into account all the passengers, luggage, supplies, etc. All that stuff adds up and can put you overweight.
For example 2.5 years ago I was in Houston, TX with one of our F550s and a 36' flex draper and trailer. Our 550s are registered for 26,000 GCWR. When I crossed the scales to check my load I was over 27k. I had to unload all my spare parts and scrap steel at the dealership and send it on the semi. After all that I still scaled at 26k even. That was without a full tank of fuel, or me, or my suitcase in the truck. By the time you add me, my stuff, and 80gal of diesel I'd have been 500+lbs overweight. Thats a hefty ticket, so I left the head at the dealership for sale and drove back to PA with an empty trailer.
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