I have a 2013 1500 Big Horn with the 3.92 rear end , tow package ect. The GVWR is 6800 lbs as stated on the door sticker. The truck is rated to pull 10,100 lbs as per the printed stats. I have a 28' travel trailer that weighs in dry at 6500 lbs. I have recently been told by a tire dealer that I am overweight and that I should not be towing that trailer with this truck.


Is the truck dealership wrong for selling me this set up or is the tire guy? I bought it specifically for my towing needs. Any info would be appreciated. Thank you

 

This is the towing chart:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...69411363,d.aWw


If your trailer truly weighs 6500 then there is no way you are overloaded. the 6800GVWR is the max weight of the truck and everything in it - including your tongue weight.


15650 should be roughly your GCWR (you didn't say cab config). Which means that your truck, trailer and everything in it should be under that weight. (Gives you a Max trailer weight of around 10K assuming there was absolutely nothing in the truck)


Put the whole combo on a scale loaded and see what reality is

 

I have the crew cab, 5'7" box. The chart is bang on, It shows that I can tow 10,100. the tire guy was wrong big time. He was listing his courses ect. to prove his point. All this because I wanted to stiffen up my tires and put a set of LT tires on. He took offence as he was the guy who sold me the passenger tires last year after he told me that the tires were perfectly suited for my needs and that I couldn't put LT tires on my Ram as the door sticker called for passenger tires. Thank you for your help.

 

Well, it shows that you can tow 10,100 assuming you have almost nothing in the truck including people. The 10,100 is your 15650 GCWR - the curb weight of the truck. So in reality your effective tow rating is going to be a lower than that once you put 4 people in the truck and junk in the bed.

 

Go to this URL. Look to the right, you will see a red button labelled, "Look up my vehicle."

Click on it, enter your vin, and you will see your towing/payload capacity.

http://www.ramtrucks.com/en/towing_guide/

Good luck...

 

You're probably not, but you could be easily over loaded. I have a 27ft TT with a tongue weight of 990lbs dry. You've got a payload of 1,430lbs. (Assuming based on the limited info in your initial post you have a crew cab with short box)

Most folks are oblivious to the fact that your hitch weight gets transferred to the trucks payload. So it is completely possible to overload your vehicle before you run out of towing capacity. Dealerships never mention this fact to folks. They just see it can pull a zillion pounds and think that's all that counts.

I have a friend with a Ford Ecoboost, blah blah I can tow 11,000lbs until he discovered nope, his hitch plus his family plus his stuff in the bed of the truck overloaded his rig. 1100lbs payload on that thing.

It can happen.