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It isn't a question of can you tow it, it's a question of should you. Seen the ads where any truck can pull a 747? Corvette shows it has a tow rating of 9000 lbs but who would be crazy enough to do so.
With a 5th wheel most trucks have the ability to tow them, but it's cargo weight rating that gets bottomed out real fast and is probably the biggest mistake folks make. They pay more attention to the tow capacity and not enough attention to the gross cargo weight rating which includes the pin weight, people in the tow vehicle, the dogs, the cats, the kids, a full tank of gas and all that stuff you threw in the truck bed around the 5th wheel hitch.
I camped next to a park host that had a small truck and I laughed because invariably visitors would ask if he hauled his rig with his Nissan Frontier. He would proudly tell them that his "rice burner" could haul anything and that he had pulled his up to the highest peaks of the Canadian Rockies. Truth was he had his rig moved there by a pro hauler and he'd been there for years.
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