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Gross Vehicle Wt. Rating: 17,500 lbs...2005 F-350 SRW
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Assume your sweetheart will load the trailer to the gills. You can help some by emptying the holding tanks before you highway, and by hauling only enough fresh water to get you where you're going - then fill up with fresh water after you get there. But for discussion purposes, assume your wet and loaded trailer will weigh 17,000 pounds.
Your 2005 F-350 SRW longbed PSD has a GVWR of 11,500 and a GCWR of 23,000 pounds.
Your wet and loaded tow vehicle is going to weigh at least 8,000 ppunds, probably 8,500, and lots of them weigh 9,000. So let's say 8,500 until you can get a good scale ticket.
8,500 tow vehicle plus 17k trailer = 25,500 pounds. 2,500 pounds over your GCWR. You will not be a happy camper if you have to cross the Rockies on I-70 or I-90. And I-40 and I-80 will be no picnic. Don't plan on climbing "The Grapevine" in SoCal, or other similar grades. For most other interstate towing, you can probably "make do". If you have to cross the rockies with that rig, that's why God made I-10.
Count on 18 percent hitch weight, or 3,060 pounds. 8,500 tow vehicle plus 3,060 hitch weight is 11,560 pounds. Barely overloaded. I'd want air bags to keep the headlights down to earth when towing at night, but otherwise you'll be in decent shape as far as your GVWR is concerned -
provided your tow vehicle weighs only 8,500 pounds before you tie onto the trailer. So for every pound of tools and jacks and fluids and whatever you have in the truck that makes it exceed 8,500 pounds, you'll need to reduce the weight in the trailer by about 5 pounds.
No, you can't have your cake and eat it too.
