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New 3500 DRW owner here

gimmie11s said:
Is your truck a single cab 2wd?

Payload is the legal limit your truck can haul. Pin weight is weight of the 5th wheel pin on 5th wheel trailers. A general rule of thumb is pin weight is roughly 18-22% the weight of the trailer.



It's 100% true. His pin weight is going to be well over 5k lbs.. take that to the bank. These trailers are HEAVY and built with REAL materials, unlike cookie-cutter RVs (like what i own).
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My ordered truck is a 4x4 crew cab long bed HO dually with 410 gearing. The most I tow is a 28' snowmobile trailer with 5 sleds + gear, and a 17,000lb excavator on a flatbed trailer(rarely). I know very little about towing big stuff but thanks to you all I'm learning. I am excited to see how a dually tows vs a SRW.
 
freeram said:
My ordered truck is a 4x4 crew cab long bed HO dually with 410 gearing. The most I tow is a 28' snowmobile trailer with 5 sleds + gear, and a 17,000lb excavator on a flatbed trailer(rarely). I know very little about towing big stuff but thanks to you all I'm learning. I am excited to see how a dually tows vs a SRW.
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Congrats on the order! The payload of your truck will be mid 5000 lbs.

My DRW is 4.10s HO/AIsin also and i LOVE it. You will love yours, they are amazing trucks.
 
Roy U said:
I will see how much wiggle room New Horizons has with axle placement. Like I said, 100% custom build. Maybe they can keep the pin weight between 4500-4800 lbs. My truck is rated at 5,590 lbs.
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Fingers crossed! Like i said, the truck will handle the weight just fine IMO. I was only stating what the legal limits will be.

Congrats on the trailer.. that is going to be a BEAUTY!
 
gimmie11s said:
Congrats on the order! The payload of your truck will be mid 5000 lbs.

My DRW is 4.10s HO/AIsin also and i LOVE it. You will love yours, they are amazing trucks.
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Thank you! I am excited, I have owned 4 Ram trucks but never driven a dually I am sure looking at them wide hips through the mirrors will be a thing of beauty.
 
gimmie11s said:
OP's is a mega... @Roy U ordered a different truck.

I made the same mistake thinking OP was Roy U..
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I was just thinking how some of the replies are starting to mix up the three different owner payload queries and I gone and done the same thing fer shucks.
 
gimmie11s said:
Is your truck a single cab 2wd?

Payload is the legal limit your truck can haul. Pin weight is weight of the 5th wheel pin on 5th wheel trailers. A general rule of thumb is pin weight is roughly 18-22% the weight of the trailer.



It's 100% true. His pin weight is going to be well over 5k lbs.. take that to the bank. "Play with it some".. not even sure what that means. These trailers are HEAVY and built with REAL materials, unlike cookie-cutter RVs (like what i own).

As far as his payload, did you miss the giant picture in post 1? I know within a couple hundred lbs exactly what his payload is. I would guess ~5100--5200.
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Custom builds they can change locations of heavy items and move the axles… rule of thumb goes out the window on build to order they can make the pin weight 10-15% if the customer requests

When we build custom flatbed Trailers we can place the axles depending on what the customer is hauling and where he wants to place the most weight


Also he is NOT the OP….

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I see you noticed he was not the OP so you can disregard that lol…
 
H3LZSN1P3R said:
Custom builds they can change locations of heavy items and move the axles… rule of thumb goes out the window on build to order they can make the pin weight 10-15% if the customer requests

When we build custom flatbed Trailers we can place the axles depending on what the customer is hauling and where he wants to place the most weight


Also he is NOT the OP….

Edit:
I see you noticed he was not the OP so you can disregard that lol…
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Makes sense in theory, but i stand by the idea that in practice, the trailer is going to have a 5k pin weight. I dont see any way around that when you have a 5er pushing 30k lbs loaded with gear ready to LIVE in..

Move the axles too far forward and it's going to be dangerous to tow. There is only so much you can do to move weight around.
 
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