Well. We heard your point of view. I would like to know the reasons why your brother bought the SRW for his fifth wheel and how it's working out for him. You had some really great objective points. Just wanted to hear that last point of view.
Hi Russ! The main difference between my brother and myself is I'm a full-time RV driving all over the United States and encountering all different types of terrain and weather conditions. My brother is not a full-time RVer and has a business where he needs to move equipment around via a trailer and needs a F-350 to do so. He uses his truck as his daily driver to go to job sites and run errands. He usually takes his family camping 2-3 times a summer and only travels around 10 miles from his home to the campground. The terrain is flat and he knows what the weather will be like before hauling is RV since the campground is located in the same city that he lives. I hope this helps answers the differences between our truck needs.
@@RadarRoadWarriors It does! Thank you! We are strongly considering a 15000K (gross) 42' 5th wheel but I REALLY don't want a dually. My wife will tell you that she is not as skilled a truck driver as your wife :). So we need something a little more manageable for her when we aren't towing. So we are thinking a long bed SRW might be a good balance. I would be the only one driving with the 5th wheel. While we will be full-time, we want to only move around basically monthly or occasionally a little more frequently. So it's a really tough call. But this was all really great info!
@@rahoboclan Really look at your pin weight vs payload towing that big a 5er with at 350 SRW. The pin weight alone on a 15k 5er will be 3k or more before adding people and contents in your truck. I have an F350 diesel SRW with 3530lb payload and would not be able to pull that size of 5er with my truck. That is why a dually general dominates the big 5er rigs. I'm looking at smaller 5ers or larger TTers.
@@fedguy9182 Agreed. I have carefully mathed out my payload and fully loaded pin weight. I also carefully custom ordered my F350 to score a 11,900# gvwr. When it arrives, it should land with a payload well over 4,000#. I should be good to go. Thanks!
I wouldn’t care what anybody else’s opinion is. DRW is the only way I would go. Dual wheels will always offer more stability. Stands to reason, much wider stance, more grip on the road better traction. I’m talking from experience, no BS.
When I was looking, I just skipped straight to the dually. I was ok with more truck than I needed. I pull a 43 ft fifth wheel that only weighs around 15k but the stability of the dually is great
@@darylkalbach4600 you could get a flat tire or have a blow out on any tire. We have TPMS sensors on all the tires so if the air pressure starts going low on a tire, the alarm will sound so you can pull over and stop driving.
@@wj2791 the TST507 TPMS is a very dependable unit. It can do the truck and multiple trailers from one screen. This video shows how to set it up. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-272vuIU9miE.html
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Some places have very small drive throughs. Most places were out of the question during our trip to California. Have you driven through a Taco Bell in Texas? I wonder if they make those drive throughs larger. There’s no way we could fit our dually through the ones in Michigan. A regular vehicle barely fits.
I've been driving my Ford F350 long bed dually for 21 years and park in the standard single vehicle parking spot. If you can't or have to take up four spots that's a personal problem, you need to get mini truck and stay away from the big boys trucks.
Yes, Dually is no problem if you take you time to park little further away in 99% of the time. I currently drive 2020 F350 DRW 6.7 and have 2023 F450 Limited on order. My truck is my daily driver and like you have no problem at all.
Having a dually is pretty nice when you are hauling a camper around. The single rear tire truck even though it was not overloaded just felt less stable.
I don't even have a trailer to pull but still have F450 Limited on order. I have been driving 2020 F350 DRW Lariat 6.7 and been loving it. I do carry some weight about 10% of the time with weight up to about 4500 lbs.
Dually is always best when towing anything beyond small trailers. They're more stable, especially when the wind picks up when towing a large box or camp trailer. Can handle sudden emergency moves better. Has much more payload and towing capacity. Beyond that... a dually can take a surprise rear tire blowout while towing heavy without all of that trying to kill you. Only real downsides are the rear tires wear faster, 6 tires to replace instead of 4, and the learning curve of driving in town, which doesn't take long.
Very good points Bowman-GTRS when I hook up out 23’ enclosed trailer for trail riding, the dually makes it easy to forget it’s back there. I had a rear blowout on a F-350 SRW towing a full load years ago and it was not fun at all. -Steve
Great advice Robert, too many of us get a RV too big for the truck then upgrade the truck after buying the RV. It can save a lot of money to buy the truck second. -Steve
You do if you need to fully open the doors and load the back of the truck. Usually we need two if we can over hang a spot at the end of a parking lot. A lot of large cities have bushes planted which makes it a pain to park. We definitely enjoy small cities where there are extra parking spaces and they don’t have parking spots for compact cars.
I have seen some ram 5500s converted to a srw from a dually. It certainly looked good and the wide track front end made for a tight turning radius. The nice thing about srw is that you can use wide tires. Not sure about the tow and capacity ratings.
Jararri, We’ve gotten a lot less fast food too since getting the dually. We don’t fit in most drive thru lanes and we’ve found ourselves just packing lunch from home so we don’t have to go in. -Steve
Is your dually a long bed? We definitely don’t fit in one spot from front to back. Sometimes if the spots are wide we can fit the truck in two spots (front and back) but if anyone parks next to us, you can’t open the doors. The truck is exactly wide as the parking spot. You can see the truck pulling into a parking spot at 3m30s. Maybe where you live, they make wider spots for trucks instead of midsize vehicles.
Sounds like you have full size parking spots around where you live. We are currently in Texas and it’s nice to have regular size parking spots again for shopping. Backing in and hanging the bed over short bushes is the spot I look for.
I’m sorry , but taking 4 parking spots to park a Dually is not needed. I drive all sorts of work vehicles including duallys and never needed to crowd 4 parking spots. Takes your time and park it in one spot….
It is if you need to to load things in the bed of your truck and access your doors. Normally we take 2 spots if we aren’t loading the bed of the truck and just need the doors opens.
F350 "can haul more according to the sticker" is talking about payload. You didn't mention the towing capacity of the F350 v the F450. F450 can tow 2 tons more than the F350
That’s correct Jacob, the F-450 has a higher towing rating (GCVWR) than the F-350 dually but the F-450 has a lower payload capacity because both trucks have the same GVWR and the F-450 is a heavier truck which takes away from the additional payload you can add before reaching the 14,000 lb GVWR. This video is answering what the best truck for towing a RV is and with RVs they max out the trucks payload well before reaching the max towing rating. -Steve
Thanks for making this video. A lot of other comparison videos focus on making these trucks a “grocery getter” vs your video. You gave us actual facts to consider while making a purchase out of the 2. Most people who are buying these trucks should know that it’s not gonna be practical like a sedan. You buy these for your hauling needs! I’m pulling a 29ft boat and this helps me see a little more clearer if I really need a dually.
@@RadarRoadWarriors my concern is I already own a 20’ 2500 Crew Cab Work Truck with a Service Body Utility bed. This can do the work I need for now, however, I want to buy a personal truck for my pleasure time, when I’m not working. I feel if a buy a Single wheel 2500, it will make me feel like bought the same truck twice. So, buying a dually, I will have extras that I can have if I grow into owning a Camper or Toy Hauler. I feel like going the dually way will be worth my investment. This purchase is not a necessity but a preference for comfort. I hope that makes sense to you and thanks for replying! Also: my trailer and boat is 8500lbs
You DO NOT need a dually for a 29 foot boat. I have 9 years with a boat dealership and my job was transport. I have hauled more boats and in more situations than I can even remember. All done with a 2500 reg cab long bed and gas. We recently just got a 3500 SRW gas and it's perfect for the 30'+ boats with dual or triple engines.
It depends on how far and where they will be pulling it. My brother has the same size 5th wheel. He only takes it about 10 miles from his house to take his family camping. In his case, there’s no need to buy a dually.
