The OR units are above average units, IMO. That doesn't mean they're perfect but you could certainly do worse.
As to your truck, the answer is "it depends". My 2013 F150 that I just sold had 600 pounds of available payload when I weighed it with a full tank of gas and my normal assortment of tools: pretty close to GVWR when I added the wife and kids. Yikes.
2015 and later F150s are better after the redesign but you can still run out of payload very quickly and the capabilities of F150s vary widely. You will absolutely run out of payload before GCWR with a properly loaded TT. The best way to know, since you have the truck already, is to figure your maximum allowable trailer weight.
Load up your wife, run by the truck stop, fill up with gas and drop the $10 or so and weigh your truck.
Take that number and subtract it from your GVWR.
Subtract another 100 pounds.
Subtract the weight of anything else that will be in the truck when you travel (kids, pets, generators, firewood, etc).
This result is your available payload for trailer towing. Multiply that by 8. This is the heaviest travel trailer you should tow. To be really conservative you could use 7.
Is that number bigger than the GVWR of the LT272? If it is, you're good. If it isn't you should seriously consider either more truck or less trailer.
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2017 F350 6.7 CC DRW
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