Ram 1500

[coldfusion]

Originally Posted by All American

Fastway E2. I wish I had one years ago. I wouldn't tow in a 1/2 or 3/4 ton without one now.

I have the same hitch. Except I have the straight trunnion bars not the curved. I love it.

[smurfsofwar]

Good payload, great axle ratio! That hemi has a lot of snout and pulls like a champ.

Your tongue weight could surprise you depending on loading habits, what's in the truck, and axle placement. Mine was over 800lbs and my TT is only 5500 or so loaded. But you still have quite a bit of room- way more than I did with my 1500. Your tow rating based on your payload and axle ratio is, just a guess, well north of 9000lbs, but it's model dependent so without the year, trim level, box length, cab type and transmission I can't say for sure. I would say without looking at actual numbers you could pretty safely start looking at trailers with a loaded weight of around 6500- 7000lbs and be comfortable and happy. That would at a hypothetical max load with max tongue weight chew up 975lbs of payload. You can likely go a bit higher I suspect depending on how much you have in the truck with you and how comfortable you are with it. If your actual GCWR is in fact 12500lbs, then you need to either A) load up your truck and go weight it to find your ready to camp weight before trailer or B) just use the GVWR max for your truck (because you'll be banging on that door) and subtract one of those numbers from the GCWR. That will give you the heaviest trailer. Work from there

[gtsum2]

You have a huge payload for a ram 1500 (when I had my 2013 it was 1061lbs). Pretty much what smurf said above

[GoldWingRyde]

Thanks for the help everyone! It is appreciated!

[JIMNLIN]

I really don’t understand all this “white knuckle” driving that is spoken of on these forums. I don’t even know the trailer is back there most of the time, but I’m use to towing.

LOL... its a phrase coined year ago when our 1/2 ton trucks had a 5700-6200 gvwr with a 3.73 axle small narrow brakes shoes and a three speed tranny and a 185-235 hp engine.
And its pushed mostly by folks that had the wrong 1/2 ton truck for the job.

Has 5.7 Hemi. Here are tow ratings, how much travel trailer can i SAFELY tow? Thanks in advance!

The 5.7 hemi/3.90 axle is a towing machine.....for what it is. You won't have any problems safely pulling its rated tow rating. Looking at Rams 2017 towing guide shows a 10k+ lb tow rating.

Now how much load can your truck carry.
Your truck has a 3900 rawr that going to carry all the load in the bed and on the rear bumper. These trucks rear axle can weigh around 2400-2500 lbs which leaves approx 1400-1500 lbs before exceeding rear axle/tire or a wheel rating.


How much trailer ??? Boils down to how much load the truck can carry.
A 7500 lb gross weight TT may have up to a 1000-1100 lb hitch weight.....or it may have 800-900 lb hitch weight.
Much depends on its dry weight/CCC numbers and its GVWR number.

Pretty simple figuring how much axle/tire weight a truck can carry. But figuring how much hitch weight any trailer will have without weighing after loading ain't so easy. Good luck

[GoldWingRyde]

Thanks for the input everyone!