Is your truck a short bed or long bed?
crewcab with shortbed
Is your truck a short bed or long bed?
Hello All,
Wanted to share my experience as I just recently upgraded my truck and 5th wheel and it was an eye opening experience. Originally I pulled a 35 ft Grand junction trailer with a total gross weight around the 15,000 mark with my 2004 Ram 2500 4X4 truck. The truck was starting to get old so I upgraded to a 2014 Ram 3500 (SRW) mega cab 4X4 which pulled the trailer just fine. Well one day not so long ago, the wife wanted to look at “ newer" trailers and we ran across a super clean 2014 Rushmore at an amazing deal. I looked at the numbers and it appeared to make sense on paper, almost to the point that I started to convince myself. Well after a week of talking it over with the wife and how she loved the trailer, and how much nicer it was then the Grand Junction we purchased the Rushmore. We completed the walk through inspection and I hooked the trailer to the truck and was I surprised at how the truck squatted under the weight of the trailer. The data tag indicated a total Gross weight of 16,250 and the Heartland specs indicated pin weight of 2700 lbs. Well the first outing I wanted to stop by a CAT scale to get an idea of the total weigh and low behold that trailer is really heavy. Total truck and trailer weight is 23040, which is still within my GCVW of 25,000 lbs however I was within 100 lbs of the max 7000 lb of the rear axle GAWR. The truck pulls the trailer fine, but just as AZBIGFOOT is doing we are moving as much weight from the storage bay to the rear of the trailer to pull some of the weight off the truck and the tires. I have looked at the possibility of upgrading the truck to a 3500 DRW but can't afford to take the hit on the truck. We are going to have to cognizant of the weight when traveling and travel with as much loaded towards the rear of the trailer as possible. Oh Yeah, just added air bags to the rear to level out the bed as is the trailer was almost riding on the bump stops.
Best advise buy a bigger truck then you need as no one ever complains about buying too much truck.
Hi silver_2000_tj,The data tag indicated a total Gross weight of 16,250 and the Heartland specs indicated pin weight of 2700 lbs.