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02suburbanZ71 Senior Enthusiast

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My 2004 Silverado LT 5.3 Towing our 26 ft Travel Trailer More pics with our boat coming soon

Beautiful truck i like the bed cover too

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snarkee
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Love towing with this thing   Sent from my SM-G920W8 using Tapatalk

FreeAmerican
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I towed our TT for the first time with the new 3/4 this weekend. I have to say on interstate and two lane the bigger truck does so much better. The big three push the half ton esp with the max tow

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Mine wieghed in @ 7200 yesterday.....I don't get it. Its supposedly "dry" weight is 7500....??? And it has alot of gear in it?

 

I am not sure if the manufactures have any idea on the actual weights. Mine has been pretty close, mine showed 6900 dry and with all our gear and everything 7300 so I thought that was great. what length is yours? do you have people try and tell you its too big for your truck? I hate that, even when I show the scale ticket then their next argument is well good luck stopping...well I don't drive 80 towing the thing and I have trailer brakes.

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I am not sure if the manufactures have any idea on the actual weights. Mine has been pretty close, mine showed 6900 dry and with all our gear and everything 7300 so I thought that was great. what length is yours? do you have people try and tell you its too big for your truck? I hate that, even when I show the scale ticket then their next argument is well good luck stopping...well I don't drive 80 towing the thing and I have trailer brakes.

It is 35' :) I was towing it with my 2010 Sierra, but i "used" the trailer as an excuse to upgrade to the 2015 Silverado. My scale numbers were 20lbs over the trucks 7600 so I guess I will leave a kid home when we go to Disney lol

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Jsdirt Senior Enthusiast

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I've towed lots of stuff. No wonder my hitch is all worn out ... :rolleyes:

 

One pic is my signature below ...

 

 

 

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Here's one of the heavier ones .... 9,600 lbs of coal on a 2k lb. trailer:

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More ...

 

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Jsdirt Senior Enthusiast

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Wow the pic limit on this site is really low .... :nonod:

 

I've got more, but I'll have to post 100x ...

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Jsdirt Senior Enthusiast

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That trailer is MINT Matt - been wanting to grab one of those for hauling coal, but this state kills us in registration fees on trailers.

 

They changed the fee structure to go by trailer GVWR. On something like that it would probably cost us $300 per year here ... :nonod:

NEFisher11 Enthusiast

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I've towed lots of stuff. No wonder my hitch is all worn out ... :rolleyes:

 

One pic is my signature below ...

 

 

 

EDIT: hit the wrong damn button. Forgot the rest!

 

 

Here's one of the heavier ones .... 9,600 lbs of coal on a 2k lb. trailer:

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What do you mean your hitch is worn out??

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8.1HD/ALLISON Senior Enthusiast

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That trailer is MINT Matt - been wanting to grab one of those for hauling coal, but this state kills us in registration fees on trailers.

 

They changed the fee structure to go by trailer GVWR. On something like that it would probably cost us $300 per year here ... :nonod:

Ouch. I just paid plates and it was $60-70. Not too bad.
Jsdirt Senior Enthusiast

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That's reasonable. For my 9,990 GVWR flatbed car hauler they wanted $180 PER YEAR, plus, $75 for a friggin title .. and then your local annual excise tax based on whatever they deem your trailer's value at. My town is better than most, but we're already getting nickeled and dimed to death by the state as it is!

 

On top of all this, if you run commercially, you have to get the trailer inspected too (another $35, plus waiting in line for up to an hour if it's towards the end of the month ...). :shakehead:

 

Someday I'm going to move the hell out of this bastion. I'm in a great neighborhood right now, so I'm sticking it out for the time being. Born and raised here, so it's tough. Our state government SUCKS. :fume: And they wonder why everyone registers their stuff out of state ...

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That's reasonable. For my 9,990 GVWR flatbed car hauler they wanted $180 PER YEAR, plus, $75 for a friggin title .. and then your local annual excise tax based on whatever they deem your trailer's value at. My town is better than most, but we're already getting nickeled and dimed to death by the state as it is!

 

On top of all this, if you run commercially, you have to get the trailer inspected too (another $35, plus waiting in line for up to an hour if it's towards the end of the month ...). :shakehead:

 

Someday I'm going to move the hell out of this bastion. I'm in a great neighborhood right now, so I'm sticking it out for the time being. Born and raised here, so it's tough. Our state government SUCKS. :fume: And they wonder why everyone registers their stuff out of state ...

I just moved from the Peoples republic of MA to NH. I cant stand dealing with the RMV and or state goverment there. I bought a new trailer 3 years ago and got my excise tax bill in the mail from the town i lived in. They had the wrong value for it. (I bought it new from 2100 dollars) they valued it at 3500$. Went to townhall basically told me to pound sand and they get there values from the RMV and i would have to go to boston to fight it.

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Jsdirt Senior Enthusiast

Jsdirt

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That figures. :nonod: Just what I want to do - go pay tolls on the Mass Pike, sit in Boston traffic, hit 12 potholes & ruin more suspension components and bend rims, then spend an hour in more traffic because I made a wrong turn and got caught up on a bunch of one-way streets with no way back ... plus the $50 they charge now for the hearing on top of it all. No thanks!! What a racket Boston has going there ... :banghead:

 

Your smart moving to NH. If I was smart i would've went house hunting up there instead. Wife couldn't leave her job and family, so had to do what we had to do. We're poorer every day because of it.

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