After upgrading two trailers that required two truck upgrades, I followed the advice of my service advisor to buy the biggest truck I could imagine needing. That's why I went with the dually.
The new truck has a payload of 5300 lbs and is rated for towing a 27,000 lb fifth wheel. Could have had a 31,000 lb rating if I had bought a truck with the 4.10 rear end. With this trailer upgrade, I had to upgrade the SRW F350 that only had 3500 lb payload. Adding the required fifth wheel hitch prep and fifth wheel hitch to that truck and with Jan, me and the dogs in the truck, we would have been about 500-600 lbs over on payload and 1,000 lbs over on rated towing capacity with the new trailer (hitch weight 3140 lb).
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Alden & Jan; Tito & Niko (the huskies)
2018 Ford F350 DRW diesel
2018 Keystone FZ369
2019 KTM Super Adventure R
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