No. You will be over the GVW of the truck. As a rough guess of what the pin weight would be on a trailer with that high of a GVW rating take 20% (Recommended estimate) and you come up with around 3,100 lbs. that the pin weight would be on your truck. On a 2500HD with the weight of the hitch, passengers, and all the gear that you might carry in your truck you will be over 7,200 lbs and a 2500Hd has a GVW rating of 9,200 lbs., which leaves you less then 2,000 lbs. for the trailer pin weight. To get closer to what real pin weight your truck could handle load the truck with all of the gear, passengers, full tank of fuel and add the weight of the hitch you will have installed and go weight your truck. Whatever it weighs subtract from you truck GVW rating and that is the amount of pin weight you can handle with your truck.
You get to decide on how much over is too much, but first you need to know how much over you are.
Your truck has a capacity for occupants and cargo approx 2,400lbs See your door sticker. That means it weighs 9,200-2,400= 6,800 empty with a full tank. Add hitch,200, people 400, stuff 50, now it weighs 7,450. That leaves 9,200-7,450 = 1,750 to GVWR for pin wt.
20% of 15,500= 3,100, so at trailer GVWR you would be 3,100-1750= 1,350 over truck GVWR.
The truck has GCWR of 22K So that leaves 22K-7,450= 14,550 for trailer.
If you do the sums like that you will find the Chev 3500SRW is little better off than what you have. A 3500 dually will be just maxed at GCWR with that trailer and it will be just under GVWR,so that is what you need to be inside the ratings.
For comparison, a SRW Ford F350 hits GCWR and GVWR together at a 5er wt of 14K, so dually indicated there too to be in ratings.
Note that 1,750 pin goes with a 5er wt of 8,750. This means any 5er you are likely to get will put you over truck GVWR. You are reduced to deciding how much over you can live with, so to speak, and that sets your trailer size. Say you can live with 400lbs over GVWR. Pin 2,150 goes with trailer 10,750.
I have a similar truck and can say that, if your loaded pin + hitch weight is more than around 2500# you will exceed your truck's GVWR. If you have a 4x4, knock 380# off that.
I am close to limits with a 9600# fiver.
Problem is that if you have a base stripped regular cab gas engined 3/4 ton, the payload is way over 3500#, but by the time you add the diesel (600#) 4x4 (380#) plus an extended or Crew Cab plus a long box you can easily chew up 1500# of that cargo capacity.
Lots of people here will tell you you will be fine, even if you exceed your trucks GVWR by 1500#.
That is for your comfort and conscience to decide.
Keith J, Retired from GM Engineering
2005 GMC Sierra 2500HD SLE 2WD/CC/SB/DA.
1999 Sunnybrook 27RKFS Fiver
Bilsteins, Line-X, Westin steps, Prodigy, Retrax, 16K Superglide, 5th-Airborne pin-box, Multi-vex mirrors.
cruiserjs wrote: Strange but the 2008 towing guide from GM shows the towing weight capacity of the 2500HD series and the 3500 to be about the same. Definitely your proposed trailer will be over those weight limits.
Note - they are LIMITS and NOT suggestions.
Towing weights, or at least GCWR) are pretty much the same for the same power-train, it's the difference in payloads (carrying capacity) that are significant.
I pulled a 35ft with a shortbed 2500 Dodge Cummins. I now pull with a 3500 Dodge Cummins. I did not exceed the gvw for the 2500 but the short box in a wind was white knuckle. I would never pull a trailer that big with less that a 1 ton dually. I would use a 20k hitch.
Chefd
That Grand Junction is a nice looking rig. And there are some dealers running scared out there so there are some sweet deals to be found. Yep you are pretty well maxing out your truck. I would also bet there are some truck dealers and private sellers out there that are running from the high fuel prices too. It might be a good time to take a real look at used prices.
Ivan Survivor wrote: With careful loading to keep weight down the actual Fifth weight might be only 13,000. (1,000 of stuff on board). Pin will be near 2,800. Your rear axle and tires must be able to deal with 6,200. If the tires are OK (Load Range E) and properly inflated to 80PSI, you will be fine. You may want Air Bags to level the truck which, of course, does not increase capacity. I tow my signature rig with a Dodge 2500. It comes in at 12,800 loaded (Truck listed at 12,500). The Pin is heavy but the rear axle is at 6,000 and the tires and axle are rated slightly higher. I had Air Lift springs installed to level the truck. Pulls great. The weight police will be here soon to spread the gloom and doom but the real fact is the only difference between a 3/4 and 1 ton Dodge is an additional spring leaf. Axle, tires, frame, and brakes are all identical. The 4.1 rear axle would boost the towing capacity over my 3.73 but if the hill is that big I let it stay in third gear vs. fourth and all is good. All I needed was a little more lift to level the truck. Am I at my MAX? (YUP). Am I safe? (YUP). Rudy
I totally agree with the Col. I have no problem what-so-ever with my signature rig. Will also soon add a PACBRAKE for good measure. Of course I am a professional truck driver with 18 years accident-free driving (2,500,000 miles) and know a little about heavy unit control. OK weight police, pile on!
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