Towing a Travel Trailer
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06/03/18 02:59 AM
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Looking to purchase a 36 foot travel trailer. Plan on towing with my 07 2500 CTD. Don't want to go with a fifth wheel because I want to keep my canopy. Anyone else tow that much with their truck?
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Re: Towing a Travel Trailer
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You shouldn't have any trouble with it. Towed a 9k 5th wheel for 10 years behind my '06 2500 4x4. Could barely tell it was back there. Depending on what you buy, you may or may not be towing that much weight. A friend just bought a new TT that was 36' and about 8k empty, IIRC. It had triple slide-outs on it which added to the weight. Tim
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Re: Towing a Travel Trailer
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makes you wonder what those guys were thinking that were towing 24 ft bumper pull trailers with their station wagons...... I'd pull that with a wagon, but not on the bumper. Good brakes car and trailer should be no big deal.
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Re: Towing a Travel Trailer
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Depending on how much "stuff" you load in the camper, the average added to dry weight is usually considered to be about a 1,000 lbs. give or take. Granted, a TT does not tow as well as a 5er simply because all the tongue weight is at the rear of the truck. Add a weight-distributing hitch and maybe a sway control and you can come close. One other thing you may or may not need is either air bags or overload springs depending on tongue weight. Tim
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Re: Towing a Travel Trailer
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I just towed my buddies 37' travel trailer with 3 slide outs to his yearly camp ground site for him with my ole 96' Ram 2500 V10. We didn't even hardly know it was back there. I think he said it was 11,100 lbs. I also tow my 28' Haulmark enclosed race car trailer loaded with tools, car, golf cart equipment etc which is also close to the 11,000 lbs mark loaded. You should be just fine with your CTD pulling it.
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Re: Towing a Travel Trailer
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06/20/18 04:03 PM
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Sure it'll do it, will it be comfortable? Not IMO.
5th wheel is the way to go that big and heavy, then your truck will be more comfortable pulling that much trailer. What do you need the bed cap when you have 36' of storage space in your trailer?
You can put tons of stuff in a 36' trailer, so they weight a lot going down the road usually. A lot of people travel with their ATV's (Hunters, campers). They'll fit in the truck bed but not in the travel trailer.
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Re: Towing a Travel Trailer
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Sure it'll do it, will it be comfortable? Not IMO.
5th wheel is the way to go that big and heavy, then your truck will be more comfortable pulling that much trailer. What do you need the bed cap when you have 36' of storage space in your trailer?
You can put tons of stuff in a 36' trailer, so they weight a lot going down the road usually. A lot of people travel with their ATV's (Hunters, campers). They'll fit in the truck bed but not in the travel trailer. OK But those who say a 36' tag trailer will be OK...has not pulled a 36' tag trailer I am betting. Most if not all that I have seen that big are 5th wheels I believe. It used to be that 32' enclosed race car trailer was the max size trailer to pull as a tag. And I know of a friend who had 32' tag race car trailer that I raced with and he only used it one season because it was bear to tow. He got a larger goose neck trailer next. And now the 5th wheel toy haulers are the way to go if you want to do that.
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Re: Towing a Travel Trailer
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Do you know the total loaded weight of this trailer? If so please post it I've towed a bunch of different open and enclosed car trailers as well as one 34 Ft. 5th wheel travel trailer, the fifth wheel weighed 11,500 on the dual axles and added right at 1500 Lbs. onto the rear axle of my 4 WHD Ram 3500 single wheel rear end truck and added right at 700 lbs. onto the front axle of my truck also. That equals right at 13,700 total weight of that trailer, it towed really nice It was more stable in the wind than when I towed my 24 ft. Pace Shadow race car enclosed trailer that weighed 8600 Lbs. on the two trailer axles and added right at 700 Lbs. onto the rear axle weight and removed 300 Lbs. from the front axle on the same truck loaded up with my old Duster ready to race in the same wind Is it a two or three axle trailer ? I probably wouldn't buy that long of a tag travel trailer either way on the amount of axles
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