I have a relative thats moving to a smaller home and has offered me a 24' enclosed trailer plus some furniture thats been in the family for some time. The problem is it's on the other side of the country. I'm guessing this will be a 5-6000 lb load.

The only towing I ever do is my 17' boat which is around 2500 lbs. You can tell it's back there especially with that 13 mpg when I've went out of town on the freeway with it.

I do have a brake controller and 7 pin plug which was on the truck when purchased. Don't know any more than that.

 

Check out this thread. https://dodgeforum.com/forum/3rd-gen-dakota/385609-towing-question.html

Need more information on your specific truck, but all the info you need should be there.

(all together now "Please use the search function")

 

 

I've been searching guys, and everything is pointing me to no. Guess I was hoping someone would tell me they've done this before. I'm considering getting a bigger truck, and I'd really rather keep this one.

 

I think it's a bit much at that distance. Enclosed trailers are a much tougher pull. The wind drag is ridiculous...

 

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Hi. I have a 1998 dodge ram 1500 sport, my horse trailer is 1800 kg and my horse 550kg give or take a little. I was towing down a long steep road with overdrive off (automatic) and trailer has electric brakes, well it smelt like a train (the brakes) and eventually failed slowly coming back before disaster happened. I have to do the same trip this weekend to pick up my horse and am a bit scared now, should I put the auto colum into 2nd gear or will that damage the box, have an oil cooler fitted ... cheers carol

 

You shouldn't rely on the motor to stop, Fix the breaks on the trailer.