Truck Tow Rating Standards

SIKSUKR · 07-02-2012, 08:24 AM

Thats funny.How do you get that post into the wrong thread?

XCR-700 · 07-02-2012, 09:18 AM

Interesting and a step in the right direction for sure, but in my experience you cannot capture on paper the experience of towing with a specific combination and under your road conditions and they vary so much that you dont know what you got until you use it.

I am often surprised to drive a tow rig that someone else said was great only to totally dislike it myself.

That said I am super fussy to have a very sure-footed tow vehicle with enough low end torque to pull the side off the house and drag it up hill!

There is nothing more unnerving than having a tow vehicle feeling like the trailer is in control and driving with a death grip the whole way. It makes for a very long ride,,,

And the second most annoying thing for me is a lack of "useful" power, and by that I'm thinking like when you pull onto either end of the Laconia By-Pass and you have say 5000Lbs behind you, thats when you need to be able to get up to speed and do so with authority, not a lot of loud varoom but going nowhere. Far too many of the new trucks have a power curve that is more geared toward high speed passing with no trailer, something I have no use for in a truck.

Low end grunt, mid-speed (30 - 60 MPH) passing power, and a ride that feels like you are in full control of the trailer are the tickets to a sucessful tow vehicle. But they also have to match what you are towing and where, and if you have a trailer that gets blown around by side-winds, or is super short or long or high or whatever, well that all impacts the quality of your experience towing and that is hard to capture on paper.

Still good to see something more tangable than the generic total towing limits.

Thanks for sharing!

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07-02-2012, 09:18 AM	#2
XCR-700 Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: MA Posts: 1,342 Thanks: 757 Thanked 538 Times in 313 Posts	Interesting and a step in the right direction for sure, but in my experience you cannot capture on paper the experience of towing with a specific combination and under your road conditions and they vary so much that you dont know what you got until you use it. I am often surprised to drive a tow rig that someone else said was great only to totally dislike it myself. That said I am super fussy to have a very sure-footed tow vehicle with enough low end torque to pull the side off the house and drag it up hill! There is nothing more unnerving than having a tow vehicle feeling like the trailer is in control and driving with a death grip the whole way. It makes for a very long ride,,, And the second most annoying thing for me is a lack of "useful" power, and by that I'm thinking like when you pull onto either end of the Laconia By-Pass and you have say 5000Lbs behind you, thats when you need to be able to get up to speed and do so with authority, not a lot of loud varoom but going nowhere. Far too many of the new trucks have a power curve that is more geared toward high speed passing with no trailer, something I have no use for in a truck. Low end grunt, mid-speed (30 - 60 MPH) passing power, and a ride that feels like you are in full control of the trailer are the tickets to a sucessful tow vehicle. But they also have to match what you are towing and where, and if you have a trailer that gets blown around by side-winds, or is super short or long or high or whatever, well that all impacts the quality of your experience towing and that is hard to capture on paper. Still good to see something more tangable than the generic total towing limits. Thanks for sharing!