MrMagumba
Junior Member
My Bighorn 1500 has an advertised payload of 1820. I spent a lot of time shopping for one with the biggest number on the door sticker. The highest I found was 1741 on the door sticker and bought it, so it didn't have a lot of heavy options on it. That said, I maxed out the truck with a Jay "Feather" camper that has a max weight of 5500. Nothing new here, but it pays to look at these real example CAT scale results. The first sheet shows with weight distribution. It took 200 lbs off the rear axle. The second sheet is without weight dist. and the third is just the truck with passengers. I try to put most stuff in the trailer, but still I was almost at the 7100 lb truck weight limit. This was a mock run for our long trip. The second photo shows our actual weight when we went on the trip. Added a few hundred pounds (mostly in the trailer) and actually exeded the 7100 limit by 40 lbs. early in the trip. Put more effort into getting stuff out of the truck and into the trailer, but if you are going to take a family of 4 on a trip, you probably can't have even a 6000 lb trailer. As stated, payload is the limit.