roadranger

Huhh??

Where'd you hear that?

Dodge states that if your trailer is over 10k gross, it NEEDS to be on a gooseneck or 5er hitch. No mention of upping the rate by 25% because of that.

Common way of figuring trailer pin weight of a 5er or goose is 20-25% of trailer gross weight, which sits in your truck. That doesn't mean you add 25% more to tow cap.

If your trailer pin weight makes your truck exceed the GVWR posted on the doorjamb, or whatever your states' tag weight rating you bought is, you are overweight.

candndelivery

After lots of research and several phone calls to different dealers including DC about towing capacities, they all said the same thing, towing cap is for stock truck (bumper pull), if you put gn or 5er you add 25% to towing cap, I pull commercially and I can legally gross out at 32,200 combined, 12,200 for truck and 20,000 in tow

fredw

i read an article about a guy that had an accident causing death pulling a trailer, he was overloaded on the rear axle, and they proved him to be in the wrong, he is now jailed for manslaughter...

this proves the point that when overloaded, you are driving a prison sentence if your in a accident, and might never be a problem with the dots till their is an accident

PurNLoud

I do not have a commercial tag b/c usually, actually never had, hauled this much; rear tires when over 12k trailer weight are 19.5's (safety issue) I was towing a six horse slant loaded with full tack, and hay for a bud that had a blow out, tkt was for the overload and no comm. tag (tx) and for apparently crossing over a load zoned 'bridge' that had a max gross combined limit of 10K. At the scale I was amazed at the weight. Would not haul this much on open hwy. Usually its trees and I'm just under 20K total. Hope this helps and clarifies everything, thanks for the welcome

PurNLoud

My best friend was killed by a powerstroke that was bombed drag racing on a public road, so would I say that modifying a truck is a prison term warm up? true story, so do you really want to go there? Not trying to start anything, just making a point on a touchy personal subject, I appologize