I was a Chevy guy until 1987 the last year of the solid front axle. Pw solid front axle and a locker no weak a$$ ifs
Was always Chevy guy growing up and still own an older solid axle Blazer. Did drive a newer Chevy 2500HD for years but went with a PW (or Ram in general) for my last truck just because I wanted the solid front axle and ability to run larger tires fairly easy. Even on a normal Ram 2500 you can run 35's with just a leveling kit on the front where as you needed a full 6"+ lift kit on the Chevy for 35's, and now run 37's on my PW with just 1.5" front springs.
As I stated before the PW has a factory rated towing capacity the same as my previous Chevy 2500HD, and it never had an issue with anything I towed or hauled. Though I will say that the rear springs on the PW seem softer with more sag than the Chevy had.
Here a couple pictures of mine hauling some company trailers. This is 1.5" Thuren front springs and stock rear springs with 1" spacers on 37s. The truck cap is on the heavier side as it has flip up side glass on both sides with contractor shelves.
The first picture with the white trailer shows a decent amount of sag. Per my WeighSafe hitch (built in tongue weight scale) that was close to 1,300 lbs. of tongue weight which the PW didn't really like. The angle of the picture does make it look worse, but it does have more sag than I like. That trailer was not properly loaded and needed to have some weight moved rearwards. The total weight of the trailer was nowhere close to needing that much tongue weight. You generally ballpark tongue weight needs to be around 10-15% of the total trailer weight.....I'm guessing this trailer should of had closer to 700-800 lbs. of tongue weight. Don't worry, only had to go less than 2 miles on 35 mph roads to get to a different jobsite so no small children or animals were harmed in the process. I think it would have handled okay on the highway but would have changed the setup if I was travelling any significant distance and/or higher speeds. The trailer is setup for WDH but obviously did not bother for this trip.
This is a larger and heavier trailer (longer overall width and more heavy duty). Would guess total weight is similar to the above trailer (lighter load in it). This is about 800 lbs. tongue load which seems just right and it handles perfectly...I have towed this longer distances and freeway speeds. Haven't actually measured but would estimate maybe 1.5"-2" of sag. On paper that tongue weight would be good for around 6,000-7,000 lb. trailer, which is what I would estimate it weighed.