[BiggarView]

Saying one can tow a trailer of any given weight is not accurate. It is also incomplete. Tow ratings are based on specific ideal criteria in order to sell their product and because of design limits. You can load a trailer to a certain trailer CCC and break the rear axle of the truck and you can also load the same trailer with the same CCC weight and lift the truck rear axle off the ground. Try towing that trailer. Just because the mfr says you can tow 15000, say, does not mean you actually can, balancing the trailer load must be considered. As you consider that, you have to consider the load on the truck rear axle and the load that gets placed on the trailer axles. IF you do it right, you can tow up to the mfr ratings. Everybody's experience will be different even with identical rigs because everybody loads their rigs differently... All is should be obvious but so often, it seems, in the heat of this endless debate it gets forgotten or ignored.

Bottom line, math is math... everything else is ego, or faith, or opinion none of which will help you in a court of law if, it ever comes to that.