My wife and I are considering a toy hauler to drag my Jeep rock crawler around in. When I look at the weight of these trailers I am shocked. If I read the towing capacities correctly I am all in at 15,100 with my King Ranch Crew 4x4.

GVWR on these trailers comes in around 20K - well, the ones with a deep enough garage to accommodate my Jeep. I have seen SRW trucks everywhere pulling these things, is towing beyond capacity commonplace or am I missing something? I tow rarely, a DRW would not work for me from a daily driver standpoint.

Please chime in - should I skip this idea and stick with my open car trailer and sleeping in hotels?

 

My 2002 Jeep TJ comes in at 13.5' long without the spare tire and is stone stock.

You may not have bought enough truck to legally drag something the size you're looking at in a Toy Hauler. You may want to consider a slide-in camper and towing the Jeep on an open trailer.

There may be some TH's out there that I am not aware of - but you are gonna need something that will take a taller than stock and longer than stock Jeep and it's probably going to weigh more than the 3200# that my stock TJ weighs..

 

The best thing to do is look here: https://secure.ford.com/resources/fo...tyPU_Sep30.pdf, but I assume you have already done that. Most of the toy haulers comparable to what you have described that I have looked at have a pin weight too heavy for an F250. So the answer to your question is yes, most of the rigs you see pulling heavy toy haulers are probably overweight in some form. A few years ago a guy parked 2 sites up from me with the exact 5th wheel as mine. I was probably right at the maximum weight with my old dually. He was towing it with a new F250, probably a 2012. He said the rv dealer told him his truck was more than enough to pull it, so he bought it. I know the pin weight is about 2400 without any payload. So that, and the roughly 8000lb truck, plus the 5 people he had in it and he was probably about 1000lb over the truck's GVWR. I drive a dually everyday and have been for many years. Its really no different than a SRW once you get accustomed to it.