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Originally Posted by Paul West
Thank you your info was great we went ahead and bought the trailer yesterday trailer weight is 6900 lbs truck rating is 7460...
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You should have probably waited for more than 24 hours so that more folks could chime-in... Based on your Longhorn's tow rating of only 7,460 it sounds like you have the 5' 7" bed combined with a payload of only 1,052 & GCVW of 13,750. (I looked at Eco-Diesels before we chose our Ram 2500...)
Unfortunately, the Ram 1500 w/heavier EcoDiesel is not a good choice for towing trailers with empty weights in the 7,000 range. It has about the lowest payload amongst all 1/2 ton choices (less than our minivan...) so you will be well-over payload & also over GCVW (combined loaded weights of both TT & TV)...
For instance, our TT is 6,400 empty and 8,000 loaded. The empty tongue weight was 650 but loaded we're at 1100. This is because, like your TT, most of the storage is up-front under the pass-through storage, front master bed & closets, etc. These TT's also require a decent WDH, like our Equalizer 4 1200, but the WDH also adds tongue weight...
So, with nothing else in our truck, our payload is 1100 (tongue weight) plus the weight of passengers. Our family of 5 & a few carry-on items adds 700, so we're at a payload of 1,800 before adding a single item to the PU bed. Our ready-to-camp payload is actually around 2,500 with GCVW around 15,000 because we like to bring bikes, scooters, enough fresh water for a few flushes, etc. & enough black tank water to keep solids from sticking - which all adds-up...
The EcoDiesel has enough torque to handle the weight but unfortunately the rest of the truck was not designed to safely handle a 30' 7,000 lb. TT...
The good news is that you can probably trade-in your EcoDiesel 1500 for a Ram 2500 with little money lost. We found a 2 year-old Ram 2500 for only $14,000 & it has a payload of 3,050, nearly 3X the payload of a 1500 EcoDiesel...