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Originally Posted by djen223
my truck gvwr is 11400 and the towing capacity for a 5thwheel applications is 15400. making 26800 your gross combined weight max.
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No.
You're mixing your apples and your oranges.
Your Ford towing capacity is a made-up number that is supposed to be the GCWR of your truck minus the wet and loaded weight of your truck before you tie onto the trailer.
The GCWR of your truck is 23,000 pounds. If you subtract your so-called towing capacity from 23,000 that leaves only 7,600 pounds for the weight of your wet and loaded truck. And your wet and loaded truck, including driver, passengers, toolbox crammed with tools and fluids, 5er hitch installed, and anything else in the truck such as pets, coolers, a floor Jack that I always haul when I'm towing, will weight a lot more than 7,600 pounds. For a CrewCab 4x4 diesel longbed with a spray-in bedliner and normal tools and extra fluids in the toolbox, 8,600 is a lot more realistic number.
Ford gave you the gross combined weight max as 23,000 pounds. Why do you think you can flash some numbers around and somehow wind up with more than 23,000 pounds?
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... at the cat scales had my gross combined weight at 24,000 well within the safe zone.
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Safe zone? Says who? Ford says the max GCW is 23,000 for max safe combined weight. So the "safe zone" is anything less than 23,000.
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forgot to add that this setup does not exced my gvwr either.
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I hope you're right. What does the CAT scale say when the truck and trailer are both loaded for bear, with a full tank of diesel and driver and all passengers and tools and other stuff in the truck?
