DRV 5th Wheel & Ram 3500 SRW

[MTK46]

Originally Posted by Muehl112MS

Have a 2017 short bed f250 platinum. Pulls my MS very nicely. Did ALOT of research before I did it. Added air lift 7500 bags, only actually have to run about 30-40 pounds in them though for everything to ride level and smooth. Hellwig sway bars front and bag and 25k slider hitch since the pin on the drv’’s sits back so far. Can get to about 80 degrees. Truck is totally stable on highway and in crosswinds and although I haven’t had to and hopefully I won’t have to, I feel like with the mobile suite having the 6 wheel disk brakes I could lock them up in my truck and come to a safe straight stop. Keep lookout and plan out route ahead with satellite map and I generally will just use the brake controller to actually make the trailer stop the truck. I will only pull a hand full of times a year so I wasn’t going to buy a whole nother big truck but I did for 6 months while looking for the right trailer do my homework. And yes I weighed the rig 20 miles after picking it up and yes I’m overweight but this trailer is 10 times smoother and easier to tow than my previous 39 foot bumper pull that weighed 12,000 pounds. 65-70 mph and get 8-9 mpg even through some 20-30 crosswinds. Never walked across my lane at any time. Pay attention and look ahead and you’ll be fine. Dry weight is 19,500 with gross being 24,000. Total weight on my second trip came in at 31,000 pounds. I don’t travel with anything In tanks and weight inside trailer is kept out of front to a minimum when we move so my pin weight stays around 4000.

All I can say is Talk about overloaded

[Muehl112MS]

Yes but not as much as one would think. Gcvw is about 28 on my truck and I’m going to weigh truck today without trailer to see what my pin weight was but 3750 is the rating. I only have to carry 30 pounds in the bags to ride where everything is level and it’s smoother than anything I’ve towed. I know people with 1 tons that have to run 60-70 pounds with lighter trailers to sit level and my front end only sits up a half inch more than it does normally. I made a couple enhancements to the truck and said I was going to bring it home from the dealer and see how it was then I’d decide on whether I needed a bigger truck and having my wife pull trailer and her say she couldn’t feel it and that she didn’t feel she needed to do anything extra to stop it coming off the highway then that was enough for me. If i moved more than a handful of times a year I’d probably get something else but that’s not the case.