So... Long story short I've got the 07 6.7L with a heavy hitch and a new boat that I'm going to pick up for the first time next weekend. The boat itself is 10,3 dry and probably closer to 12 loaded. Its 11'8" wide and the trailer is 37ft long. The trailer is brand new its being manufactured right now so that its ready when I get to florida to pick up the boat.

My question is I'm new to towing heavy loads >10k lbs. I have a boat right now weights about 7500 lbs trailer and boat. So the new one is about twice as heavy and its a tri-axle unlike the tandem I have now. Its a ball trailer not a fifth wheel so what tips can people provide to help the haul from florida to indiana be a little more smooth.

Any tips or advice would be helpful.

 

is your truck a dually? if not sway bars will help you out
do you have trailer brake controler

I have hauled many heavy loads, keep it at a good safe speed that you feel great about, look at your temps and go with the feel of things

 

It is not a dually, and I dont have a brake controller, the trailer has hydraulic kodiak disc brakes... Everything about my truck is stock except for the smarty. Is there additional equipment I should be purchasing?

 

you may want look in to getting a sway bar, that will help you out a bit

 

A break controller is a definite over the mountains and really for any place your hauling that heavy by law and for safety sake. After being in the trailer business for some years the best controller I found for the money is the Tekonsha Progigy box. It is a progressive application box that will handle triple axles, is easy to use and hook up. As long as you have the trailer package from the factory in your truck it is a simple plug and play box. Mount it wherever you want, run the wire under the dash and pug it in to the empty plug you will find down by the parking brake pedal and it's installed.

You also need to fill in your signature so we know any details about your truck. If you have any Mods or not. The anti sway bars may help out some but being a triple axle on the trailer is going to solve most of that problem. Just be aware that a triple axle means that your gonna have to take turns extra wide. triple axles on the open road or rough terrain are great, in town they are a pain in the bottom side because they don't corner well.

 

Trailer is "surge" braking... no controller needed seems all of the boat trailers these days are... doesnt make me feel real well though.

 

If it's quality surge brake they are great but there's a lot of cheap systems out there that are worthless so it all depends.

On the down side to surge brakes. Plan your turn arounds carefully. I had a horse trailer with surge brakes on it and once in a while I would get in a bind backing up. They are applied by the trailer and the truck pushing together and compressing a spring in the hitch. If your trying to back up uphill or on rough ground that is putting resistance on the trailer the brakes lock up and your stuck. Just somethin to be aware of.

 

I was wondering if anyone has ever watch TruckU and seen a show that they were working on a truck called Frankentruck, in that show the guy had built a beefed up suspension system to support his 40 ft gooseneck travel trailer. I was wonder how he did that, i have a 2005 Ford SD F250 4x4 Crewcab 6.0 diesel and want to up the capacity to haul that size of trailer.

ANY suggestions, with the cost of a new trucks I would just as soon build up mine!

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we always run air bags on our 3/4 tons. it quick and easy to install we go with the airlift systems and they run about 300-400 i think and we have on board controlllers to air up or air down the bags and we are in northwest iowa so you wont have problems with the compressor freezing either. it really makes a difference because you can keep the truck level

 

When you say "ball hitch", do you mean Gooseneck, or a bumper pull. That would be quite a load for a bumper pull, but shouldn't be bad at all with a Goose.