i pull a jayco 26 ft with a slide. dry weight is 6200. this is with my chevy avalanche with 3.73 gears. 2 adults, usually 3 kids, 2 kayaks in the bed and enough food and clothing for 5 days.

we regulary go from Freindswood to New Braunsville and as far as Garner State Park. i made at least 10 trips in the last 1.5 years with no issues.
of coarse i have the right hitch, stabilizer and brake controller. cpount on 8.5 to 9 mpg

it does fine however i would not want to pull more, nor would i leave Texas.
i keep it to 65 mph and less.

i rescently pulled it with my brother 6.2 gmc denalli and what a difference. that thing pulled some pretty good grades while never dropping a gear. my next truck will have to be a 3/4 ton gmc or maybe the new ford 6.2.

 

Ford 6.2 is what your going to want.

 

My truck has the 3.73 ls axle, I just came back from a 100 mile trip with 35 mph cross winds and this trip I didn't put the bike rack on the back of the tt and only had 1/3 fresh water and it towed very well, my problem is that when I tow with tanks full and the bike rack on with 2 bikes it adds 450#'s behind the axles of the tt and takes about 160#'s off the tongue weight.

The key with these F150s is to have the correct tongue wt for the tt without going over the gvwr of the truck.

 

I tow a 24ft race trailer regularly that scales from 6500-7000 on race weekends. My sig rig has 3.55 gears, so not great.

But the truck tows the load fine. I regularly set the cruise at 72 mph on the interstate and rarley see it kick out of third gear. It will lock the coverter 80% of the time on the hills.

I regularly get 8-9.5 mpg towing this thing.

The worst part is the tongue weight. The trailer is designed for race cars with heavy engine, not ATV's . The trailer has full work bench,air compressor, generator, refridgerator, and batteries in the front of the trailer.

And usually would back a car into tje to level the load. Well i dont have the added weight in the rear of the trailer from a engineso i have to manage with a WDH. I crank it down pretty good to get my truck back to level.

I think when i scaled it here recently the truck scale said 3200 on the front axle, 5500 on the rear axle, and 3500 on the trailer axles. Im not sure if the scale was right or not. I know my total ticket was for 12k truck trailer combined.

I have way way to much tongue weight. Not much i can do about it though.

Just thought i would share it.

 

Are you sure on the rear axle and trailer axle weights? I would think you had #3500 on the trucks rear axle and #5500 on the trailers axles??

Otherwise, your truck was at a whopping #8700 with a GVWR of only around #6500 at best!

My truck has right around the #3200/#3500 axle weights with my #5000 travel trailer hitched up.. I think my trailer axle weight was around #4400 and I figure I have around a #600+ tongue weight..

I'm over my trucks weight limits, but not by a 'lot'.. Like you, it tows fine and I've been doing it for over 8 years with no ill effects either way..

Mitch

 

Please - buy the right truck for the job. Look for a good used F-250 with a V-10 gasser and then get the trailer you want.

 

I was a little off on my numbers. Im not sure the scale was right on the axles though, it was a semi scale, and i didnt look where i stopped on it. I just pulled up on it cause i wanted to see my total weight.

 

 

5400# on that drive axle is WAY over the limit! That's well into Super Duty territory.

 

Yep, his GAWR for the rear is probably in the neighborhood of 3600lbs. A 2004 with a 7200lb GVWR has a rear GAWR of 3950., still well below that 5400. That thing definitely at minimum needs a WD hitch (on an F250).

 

Like i said, something is fishy. Im wondering if my wheels didnt add up on the scales correctly. Like i didnt stop on the right pads.

Its possibly that with my truck/trailer being shorter than a semi, and the scale haveing 3 pads, i could have had the front axle of the trailer on the same pad as the rear axle of the truck, and the rear axle of the trailer on the rear pad.



Im thinking that is what happend.

5400lb would make it sqwat way worse i would think.

 

I went back today to the scale, and sure enough the front axle of the trailer ended up on the same pad as the rear axle of my truck.

So its not as bad as it looks. I will rescale it sometime to get the actual axle weights. But 12k should be spot on.

 

I'm still looking, but have pretty much settled on a F150 with max set up for towing. It has Max Tow, 5.4L, 3.73 axle, 17" wheels. My figures are still way under the rattings. But haven't settled on a TT just yet.......RAE

 

My DH & I have a 2009 FX4 F150 (AKA Big Blue);

Front GAWR 3,750 lbs
Rear GAWR 3,850 lbs

We are currently towing a 2010 Spree 310RLS. The specs are;

UVW (Unloaded Vehicle Weight) 5,750
Dry Hitch Weight 540
Dry Axle Weight 5,210
NCC (Net Carrying Capacity) 1,550
GVWR 7,300
Interior Height 78"
Exterior Height 10'9"
Exterior Width 96"
Exterior Length 33'2"

We are very happy with this combo (out of all the truck/trailer combos we have had over the last four years)

 

Thanks for the feed back Marabeth, you are towing just about what we are looking at, maybe another 700 pounds. Your feed back is good to hear. All along I hev been trying to hear from someone towing with a 209 or 2010 F150 with Max Tow. Most of the other people who have replied have 2004s, 2007s, when in 09 Ford changed their F150s for towing. Have you towed through any hills?............RAE.