I had a 2006 Dodge 3500 and a 40' load and trail . I really liked that trailer. I was hauling commercial A/c units out of Lexington KY. I was low enough to take the tall loads. The major downfall to this truck was the transmission and steering. It just couldn't take the constant abuse.
I don’t doubt it. Most little truck hotshot dudes are running 5500’s now with the Aisin transmission. A two axle big truck will still hold up better.
I hauled cars for a little while for a small local company here in Cincinnati. They were using fully deleted and tuned Dodge 4500. They ran great ! Ran Cincinnati to Cleveland everyday.
LoL, recognize your pic form Gary's place. Surprized you had issues with that truck. In my opinion, the '03-early 07's dodges were the best truck you could get pulling a nice light lowboy triple like that..
[QUOTE="singlescrewshaker, post I think that truck may have had a rough life before I purchased it. The 48re trans was the first to break. Then two torque converters. The steering gear was constantly needing replaced. It just wouldn't stop. Lol. I was driving to pay for the repairs it seemed.
I ran a single axle for years, had a Mack, iIHC and Pete. With a spread axle trailer you can gross 72,000. With a light trailer you can scale over 40k.,Can’t do that with a pickup and gooseneck
It would have to be loaded more carefully than usual but once you account for the added weight of a twin screw you really don’t end up loosing that much in payload capacity running a single screw.
