I donlt know whats the ladders jump rating? 1 rung, two rungs.....As far as how much you pull with it, it is rated for 9200# keep it under that, if your inexperienced it might be a good idea to keep it well under that but the truck can handle it if it is loaded correctly. The brakes would be my first concern if going all the way to the limits but I just assume your smart enough to have trailer brakes if your hauling a big load. The frame wheels tires can handle it or Mopar would get sued for claiming it as their tow rating.

 

the 9200 lb thing is with a 5th wheel or a gooseneck. The bumper mounted and factory receivers are rated at (I belive) 500/5000 lbs. I would not go over 3000 lbs without some sort of trailer brakes. As to the weekend warrior tractor trailer argument: Tractor trailers are often a lot easier to drive than pickups with trailers. On the other hand almost all tractor trailer drivers are way more experienced than the pickup driver.

Given all that I know people who have haled 15000 lbs with a jimmy with two working brakes, so... "whatever you feel your rank can take".

 

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Which truck do you have, 1500, 2500, maybe I missed it if you said?

 

A 2006 1500, 3.92, Hemi is rated at 9100# towing. This would normally mean a travel trailer or boat attached to a Class IV receiver hitch. Bumper hitches are useless. The tow rating is the same for a gooseneck or fith wheel, but that gets a bit more complicated. It's hard to get near that if you follow the 20% weight on the hitch pin rule. You will surpass the payload of the bed long before the 9100# is reached. Also realize that all cargo, gasoline, and passengers comes off that as well. All this also has to fall within the gross combined vehicle rating and different configurations of 1500s will vary in weight. The GCVWR for the 1500 Hemi is 14,000#. A quadcab 1500 will weight around 5400#, leaving a more realistic rating of 8600# before gas cargo and passengers. This is why it's rare to see 1500s pulling goosenecks and fifth wheels. The information in this post comes directly from the 2006 Dodge Ram broschure.

 

go to dodge.com/towing - you can find out the actual rating for your truck. I didn't know the 1500 went as high as 9100 lbs. But that's only a regular cab 2wd short bed with the hemi, most of us are driving quad cabs (and many of us are 4x4) - my truck is only rated for 8500 lbs.

 

I think your last post said it best but either way I think we managed to answer MYy2k's question.

 

I only hope he is not more confused now than he was in the beginning, and I would still like to know how arrowman towed that 13,000 pound load with 5 people in it, from New Jersey to Florida in a 1500. I would really like to know what modifications he has done to the truck in order for it to have that kind of capacity.

 

This is why it's rare to see 1500s pulling goosenecks and fifth wheels. The information in this post comes directly from the 2006 Dodge Ram broschure. >>>>>>>>>

My buddy has a Silverado 1/2 ton, he asked me what I thought about getting a toy hauler. I told him that I thought it was too much for either of our pickups.

I had an experience with my F150, I was hauling a quad in the back and one on a very small trailer down a dirt road into a river valley, about halfway down my brakes began smoking....BRAND new front brakes. I had it shifted into low and wasn't pushing it at all. Once at the bottom I let them cool down and they seemed to work fine but it spooked me.

Me personally I prefer to throw caution to the wind and not over do it. I'm sure you can overload your truck for a short haul and probably not cause any problem but if you do this over and over again it will probably cause some premature wear on the truck.

Remember you aren't the only one on the road out there.