2016 1500 bighorn - this can't be right!
 

Ok, took the 2016 bighorn to the scales and weighed it at 6380 pounds me, wife and full tank of gas. All stock - my GVWR is 6900 pounds so SERIOUSLY I can only haul 520 pounds or I am over loaded? Can't even pull a trailer more than 5,000 pound or the tongue weight puts me over 6900lbs. This is rediculous as the truck has a tow package and electric brakes. Can't legally haul much but my 3800 boat. No RV - but I see people pulling them all the time. Frustrated

You need to be looking at GCWR, not GVWR. The gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR), is the maximum operating weight/mass of a vehicle as specified by the manufacturer including the vehicle's chassis, body, engine, engine fluids, fuel, accessories, driver, passengers and cargo but excluding that of any trailers. Your GCWR minus the GVWR is your max trailer weight (approximation)

My GVWR is 6900lbs. My GCWR is 15,950lbs. So you are saying I can tow 9050lbs as a travel trailer and I dont add the 10-15% tongue weight to the truck? That would be 900 - 1300 lbs tongue weight added to the 6350 = 7250 - 7650 and both over the CVWR.

Here's your towing chart. Depending on engine/transmission/axle combination you can tow anywhere from 4970 lbs to 9200 lbs.

That is where I got my numbers plus taking the truck across a CAT scale. I have the numbers, but you did not respond to adding the the tongue weight to the CVWR. That is indeed a load so yes I could tow a 4970 pound trailer, but no much more. That is a long way from 9200 pounds

Don't know what else to tell you. Perhaps swing by a dealer and ask them.

Clearly Dodge Ram says to include the tongue weight in the CVWR.

https://ramtrucklakeelmo.furymotors....gcwr-and-gvwr/

Thanks,

I’ve found when you’re weighing a truck trailer combination the thing that matters is you must be under the GCWR for the total weight of everything combined. As far as going over your GVWR it doesn’t matter in that situation what matters is you cannot exceed your axle ratings. So look at your rear axle weight rating and find out how much weight your truck exerts on the rear axle then you can do the math to see how much tongue weight you can legally have

OK, my ratings for the rear axle is 3900 lbs. Th scale weight of the truck shows 2820 so what would my tongue weight be?

1080 lbs, minus the weight of whatever you throw in the bed.