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Originally Posted by mtlakejim
... I would look the other way if you had it hitched even to a 1/2 ton if you were towing it during a hurricane evacuation. That's going to be some really slow driving by default. And hopefully you will only be going a few hundred miles at most. Mighty hard to justify a larger truck and rougher empty ride for what is an unlikely single event. I wouldn't tow it with anything so small that you will be breaking the springs or overloading the tires to the extreme but you sure don't need a 1 ton to tow it once for a short distance, much less a dually.
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Eeeekkkk! A 1/2 ton would be scary, if not even impossible!
The OPs 5er and ours are close to the same numbers empty. We pulled ours home with a 3/4 ton 2002 Chevy diesel, and yes we were way over the payload and Max towing and everything, but it got it done. I checked later and while we had hit the bump stops, we were not riding on them. A 1/2 ton would not only be on the bump stops, it would have them smushed to nothing in a few miles...