Tow / Haul

[Yeller]

I had a nice Tacoma rated to tow 6500 pounds. I bought a travel trailer that weighed 4700 pounds. The Tacoma had plenty of power, but it got a little squirrely rounding a downhill curve. A little research and a trip to the scales showed me that I had exceeded the 1200 pound payload capacity of the truck.

Part of the blame goes to the RV sales person. They'll quote the trailer weight and the tow rating of your vehicle. Sure, the trailer is in range of the capacity of the truck, but you'll exceed the cargo capacity long before you'll exceed the towing capacity. When you add 6 to 7 hundred pounds of tongue weight, it leaves very little cargo capacity for passengers, bikes, kayaks, and chairs.

Sure, you can add air bags or helper springs, but you haven't increased the legal payload capacity.

I have gathered all do the data to do a detailed article on towing specifically geared to Broncos. I really need to gather the last little bit and get to writing.

 

[chrlsful]

U Go Yeller.
"Stickies" R da bomb !

 

[Yeller]

I should elaborate, trailering the bronco, not the bronco doing to towing. The biggest mistake is grossly under estimating weight. RV companies are the worst most of them are at capacity before anything is added like water, propane, food and clothes

 

[blubuckaroo]

It looks, to me, that when someone hooks up to a trailer, they speed up. ?:?
What's with that?

 

[Yeller]

It looks, to me, that when someone hooks up to a trailer, they speed up. ?:?
What's with that?

Gotta prove how bad a$$ that new truck is%)%)%)

 

[1970 Palmer]

I should elaborate, trailering the bronco, not the bronco doing to towing. The biggest mistake is grossly under estimating weight. RV companies are the worst most of them are at capacity before anything is added like water, propane, food and clothes

It was a Bronco Trailering accident that allowed me to get into this hobby. I purchased a bronco that was rolled while it was being trailer towed to it's new owner. It sustained substantial roll-over damage and I chose to purchased the damaged vehicle and rebuild it back to original. Fortunately it did not get a salvage title issued during the process. I could never afford to purchase a rust free, 94,000 mile all original truck, without doing some sweat equity labor work.

John