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Old 03-30-2013, 11:44 PM
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Originally Posted by jcain
16,300 for 250 and 350 srw 2wd crewcabs, and my truck didn't curb that much
Both of mine did. Diesel crew cab 4x4 short bed. Heavy sleds. Lol.
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Originally Posted by HoustonRider
All of these trucks can get your trailer going down the freeway at 90mph. That easy. It's managing the load and more importantly, stopping the load short and sweet that is more critical. If you got weighed on the road with that F150 and a 9,000lb trailer you would get a ticket for being overloaded. Worse, if you couldn't stop safely and an accident occurred, you would have a liability because you overloaded your capacity.
Let's not forget that ST tires are only rated to 65mph. Towing at 90 is just insane.
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Originally Posted by Audzatstods
Good afternoon F150 Forum.

We are totally new to this website and also to Canada, as we are originally from Scotland.

Anyway we have been round various forecourts looking at travel trailers and fifth wheels. Our vehicle is a 2012 F150 platinum with the 6.2lt engine, and tow package.

After reading many many articles online about what we can tow and what we shouldn't tow, we thought we would ask you guys to help us out here, as some say we can tow with a sliding hitch in the short box and some say don't even go there, so we are very confused.

The fifth wheel we are looking at is a Crossroads Cruiser with a dry weight of 9206lbs, which we initially thought would be too heavy until the owner gave us his F150 ecoboost to tow it with and we were surprised how relatively easy it pulled and also stopped, we weren't up any steep inclines, but it managed a gentle slope no problem. The owner guy reckons our truck will be ok, but he is also the seller!!!!!! So we are interested to read any comments please.
If the seller allowed you to use his truck just ask him to go with you to a public scale. Our experience with crossroad products is they are not very close to listed dry weight.
Also once you are fully loaded to travel you do not want to be sitting right at the max allowable weight.
You also need to consider where you will be traveling, BC is a good example, if they stop you there and you are over even on an axle they can make you unhook and go find a bigger truck or a tow truck to move it.
They watch for trucks with exceptionally large trailer.
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Thanks for your comments everyone, we have taken this onboard, and will be looking to upgrade to a F350.



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