npaden
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Okay, I was wrong. The GVWR on my truck is 11,350lbs.Pin/tongue weight is on the truck, not on the trailer axles.
So does that limit me to a 14,650 lb trailer to stay under the 26,000 CDL limit?
Do I get to do some type of calculation on what the tongue weight of the trailer would be that will take away the cargo capacity of the truck? You would need to do that to calculate the actual amount you really could tow.
The 11,350 GVWR of the truck plus the 18,500 max towing would be 29,850 but that is over the GCWR of 27,500 on the sticker because on an 18,500 trailer you would have at least 1,850 tongue weight so that would knock the carrying capacity of the truck down by that much.
So if I was pulling a 16,000 lb trailer then it would have at least 1,600 lb tongue weight so 11,350 + 16,000 - 1,600 = 25,750 so I would be good?
That would probably allow me to go up to a 5 ton machine at least.
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