Looking For Input On Towing

[ss502gmc]

I have been hauling cars for awhile now with a single car hauler and have decided to upgrade to a 2/3 car hauler. I wanted some input from people on how my truck " in my sig " would do hauling a 2/3 car slant trailer. The trailer i was looking at is a 42' triaxle 14,000lb gvw. The owners manual says that my truck is rated to pull 15,500 lbs. I plan on only using this truck for about a year and then upgrading to a 3500 dually or a kodiak 4500. i am going to stay local with this truck in state for now until i get another truck. But i wanna make some $ before spending $! I keep my truck well maintained and have hauled heavier loads than this before without a hic up. So i just wanted some others input on doing this before everything is finalized.

[RonJ]

I have been hauling cars for awhile now with a single car hauler and have decided to upgrade to a 2/3 car hauler. I wanted some input from people on how my truck " in my sig " would do hauling a 2/3 car slant trailer. The trailer i was looking at is a 42' triaxle 14,000lb gvw. The owners manual says that my truck is rated to pull 15,500 lbs. I plan on only using this truck for about a year and then upgrading to a 3500 dually or a kodiak 4500. i am going to stay local with this truck in state for now until i get another truck. But i wanna make some $ before spending $! I keep my truck well maintained and have hauled heavier loads than this before without a hic up. So i just wanted some others input on doing this before everything is finalized.

 

 

A 3500 Dually will have the same towing capacity. The dually will be more stable, and can carry more weight in the bed. I love the stability of my duallys.

[Big black truck]

You'll pull just fine. Obviously a dually has the advantage, but you have no worries pulling with your set-up. I would suggest looking at the trailer brake set up you have to see if it is capable of a tri axle brake set-up.

Good Luck.

[Kodiak450]

Add a heavy duty leaf to the rear stack and you will not have your bed drop until you have at least 2,500 lbs in the bed, or from weight of payload on trailer. I got same strength, if not more then a dually's stack with this HD leaf. Also gained 3.5" in the rear which has it's pros and cons. Cons would be not being able to easily reach into the bed fromt he side of the truck and grab tools, ect out of bed. Pros are the amount of added weight I can now haul (extra 2000 lbs) ontop of OEM limit. And the stance of the truck looks heavy duty and handles ruff roads with better stability now. Truck has 2" more height then a F350 does and 1.5"- 2" taller then a dually 4wd. Ofcoarse the duallys will always have the better towing stability with extra axels, but you will be amazed of how much better improvement you will notice with the extra HD leaf spring.

 

The single HD spring on both sides I got is slightly thicker then two of GM's OEM leaf springs. I paid $400 cash for spring and install.