2016 F-350 Lariat crew cab, 6.7, single rear wheel, 8 ft bed with a B&W gooseneck ball. it has pulled our 3 horse slant bumper pull and later a small 2 horse gooseneck with a dressing room for years and never complained.
now we are looking at a used 4 horse gooseneck with a 12 ft living quarters, the kind with a little kitchen and a shower you can barely turn around in. the seller says it weighs about 11,000 empty. four horses at 1,100 to 1,200 each, water, hay, tack and two people's stuff for a week at a show and i figure we are near 16,000 rolling.
the brochure number for my truck's gooseneck rating is not the part that scares me. the door sticker is. 2,890 lbs payload. if the pin is 20 to 25 percent of 16,000, that is 3,200 to 4,000 lbs sitting in my bed before i put myself, my husband and the dog in the cab.
so do i need a dually, or do i need a 3500 SRW with a better sticker, or is there something i am missing? we go to Ocala for part of the winter circuit and the trip down I-75 is not one i want to do on the edge of anything.
gooseneck_haulerPullingArdmore, OK38 posts, joined Nov 2025
you are not missing anything, you did the math right and the math says dually.
i haul cattle out of Ardmore with a 3500 dually and a 32 ft stock trailer. before that i ran a 2500 for two years and pulled the same trailer with it, and it did it, but it moved around every time a cattle pot went by me on I-35 and i never once relaxed. the dually fixed that the first day. the wider stance is most of it. the other part is the four rear tires sharing the load, which is the number your sticker is really worried about.
check your rear axle rating on the same door sticker too, the GAWR rear. on a lot of SRW trucks the tires and the rear axle number run out before anything else does.
powerstroke_loyalPullingWaco, TX33 posts, joined Nov 2025
going to be the SRW guy so somebody is. a dually is miserable everywhere except hooked up. parking garage at the hospital, the drive through, the car wash, the narrow gate at the in-laws place. my F-250 is my daily and i would not trade that for the 2 or 3 weekends a month i tow.
that said, i pull a 10,000 lb bumper pull and not 16,000 on a pin. at your weights i would be in a dually too. i just want you to know what you are signing up for on the other 300 days.
mod_tracy_lModeratorCheyenne, WY88 posts, joined Nov 2025
truck2017 F-350 XLT 6.7 Power Stroke, SRW long bed
Wyoming wind opinion: a loaded living quarters trailer is a sail. i have watched SRW trucks with big horse trailers get shoved half a lane on I-80 between Laramie and Rawlins. that stretch closes to light high profile vehicles for a reason.
before you shop, pull up the towing guide for the exact year and configuration you are looking at. Ford keeps them on ford.com under the towing section, and they break it out by cab, bed, axle ratio and SRW or DRW. a 2020 F-350 DRW crew 4x4 with the 4.30 rear end and the 6.7 is a different number than the same truck with 3.55s, and dealers will quote you the biggest one they can find.
and when you look at a truck, open the driver door and photograph the sticker before you fall in love with the paint.
horse_trailer_pamOPUp to tempLexington, KY17 posts, joined Nov 2025
update. a friend at our barn has nearly the same trailer, same brand and length, one year newer. we hooked it to her truck saturday loaded for a show and ran it across the CAT scale at the truck stop on I-75 by Georgetown, then did it again unhooked. pin weight came out 3,640.
my sticker says 2,890. that is the end of the argument in my house. my husband had been holding out for the SRW because he parks at the Lexington clinic downtown twice a week, and he went quiet when he saw the scale ticket.
the other number i did not expect: her truck's rear GAWR was the tight one, like gooseneck_hauler said, before total payload even came into it.
hotshot_out_of_tulsaUp to tempTulsa, OK21 posts, joined Nov 2025
truck2019 Ram 3500 dually 6.7 Cummins, 40 ft PJ gooseneck
dually owner who also hates the car wash here. two things nobody mentioned. six tires instead of four, so a set of load range E tires is a real bill, mine was a little over 1,900 mounted last spring. and the inside rear tires are a pain to check, buy a dual head gauge or you will skip them and that is the one that goes flat in Georgia.
but 3,640 on the pin? dually, no question. i would not do that on a single wheel truck in a crosswind with animals in the back.
horse_trailer_pamOPUp to tempLexington, KY17 posts, joined Nov 2025
found it. 2019 F-350 Lariat DRW crew, 6.7, 4.30 gears, 71,000 miles, from a private seller in Paris, KY who bought a semi and did not need it anymore. sticker says 4,210 payload. the trailer goes on it this weekend for a test run to Shelbyville and back before we commit to Ocala in January.
the old F-350 stays in the family, my daughter is taking it. thank you all, this saved us from a very bad first trip south.
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