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[QUOTE="Highbeam, post: 506865, member: 23735"] Allright, there is some poor information here. The GVWR is one thing and the GCWR is another. Your pickup and trailer each have their own GVWR and the truck has a GCWR. GCWR is the total weight going down the road of your whole rig as in "gross combined weight rating". The "gross vehicle weight rating" is a better place to start and is more likely the first rating that will get you in trouble with a half ton. You have to do the math if you want to be legal. If you are not interested in calculating everything and weighing everything to see if you have a sufficient tow vehicle, a rough rule of thumb is to take the GCWR of the truck and subtract the GVWR of the truck, the difference is the allowed GVWR of the trailer. This can get you into some trouble with the nit-pickers (myself included) but it beats the heck out of depending on a salesman or totally ignoring the issue (same thing). Rather than look at the size of trailer, check the GVWR of the trailer for suitability. Different brands of the same size trailer can have much higher weight ratings. The tundra will give you very crappy mileage. I love toyotas but they screwed the pooch on the tundra, it is smaller then a fullsize and gets much worse mileage than my half ton chevy. You don't seem tp have a problem daily driving a fullsize. If you want towing capability and mpg and with your long commute I would suggest a diesel. There has been much debate about towing overloaded. The argument being that if you break a rule and kill someone is the insurance company going to cover you? If I run a red light and kill someone they will cover me. How is that different from overloading your truck? The result of these debates has been to consult your insurance company, experiences have varied. Better safe than sorry. [/QUOTE]
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