aries75 said:
I have been window shopping for over a year now and probably will not be buying for until next summer. But I think I found the TT of my dreams. It is a 2016 Grand Design Imagine 2800BH. All I can say is WOW. The wife and I love it. It is a little longer than I want though 32ft. The tongue weight is only 580# which is good for my Laramie which pay load is only 1200#, and the GVWR is 7700#. I have read a lot of places how TT can act like sails. Should I be concerned over the length. Im not in a very mountainous area here in Western Maryland to be concerned wind high winds.
I have a differing opinion regarding using "payload capacity" as a measure of what a truck will haul and tow (it's useless) and I don't think you'd have a problem with the tongue weight of this trailer.
However, I think a 32' trailer acting like a sail is going to make towing a challenge at best and a nightmare at worst. Case in point, my dad owned a 2009 F-150 "Max Tow" pickup. He found a great deal on a 34' trailer and asked me if he could tow it. After doing all the calculations, he was under all the rated capacities for his truck. He bought the trailer and hit the road.
After his first trip of roughly 200 miles, he was ready set the entire rig on fire. The trailer towed terribly and the truck was all over the road. The next step he took was to shell out $2,000 for a Hensley Arrow hitch. He spent countless hours trying to get it right and even had two shops try to set it up for him. In the end, he sent that hitch back because it didn't solve his problems.
What it finally boiled down to was a severe lack of tow vehicle weight. Even though he was under hic capacities, his truck was just too light to overcome the forces that the trailer put on it.
Since he is going to be fulltiming soon, and he really likes the trailer, he ended up getting a dually truck to pull it with. The truck is overkill for the job but is the ultimate answer for someone that is going to put in 30,000 miles a year on the road.
You'll get by with your truck but it MAY be a handful when towing. If you're only using it for shorter trips, I say hook up and go for it.