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Originally Posted by sourdough
I will say again, with emphasis, this is not the oilfield. One off modified trucks in a Halliburton shop etc. do not pertain to families buying RVs and trying to tow them safely. I live in the oilfield, and no, you guys are not doing everything possible every day to be safe (in fact referred one of your "big red" drivers to your management for dangerous driving). So, IMO, try to address established towing limits as established for everyone. Your pic of the "overloaded" hot shot rig has nothing to do with towing an RV....more like the flatbed trailers the manufacturers use to get their unrealistic numbers - that's NOT RV towing experience.
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These are not one of halliburton modified trucks, they are ordered with a gvwr under 10k while general public versions are rated around 13k.... And I assure you, one individual, if you had him reported, was not following the procedures we have in place. I have more than just oilfield towing and hot shotting, I've been pulling trailers, including RVs most of my adult life. Towing is towing, period, disagree if you want. The door tags are great guidelines to follow, especially when in doubt, but I fear someone will take that door tag and attempt to max it out or exceed it 'just a little' because the weight tags said it was fine.
When in doubt always go by the lesser numbers but this is derailing my thread where my entire reason for posting wasn't to discuss weights, Again I was more interested in opinions on a 6.4 Ram for towing in general i just attempted humor because I knew id be inundated with questions about weights based on the other threads.
In short I appreciate your comments, because it opens the dialogue, Im not trying to argue and beat dead horses though.