Towing a travel trailer

Hi all.
I have done a bit of searching info about towing a TT with my 2014 V6 Taco w/towing pack. Little confused. Here is what I want to do. Pull a TT with dry wt of 3060# and Max cargo of 820#. Tongue wt is 420#. I figure to have maybe 600# passengers and stuff in truck. That's a lot of numbers all adding up to I am not sure if this is a good match or not. Any help greatly appreciated. Oh and yes I plan to pull in mountains sometimes. Thanks in advance.

 

4480 lbs total for trailer, gear and people isn't bad. You'll be fine. Look on sticker in door jam. You're looking for the GVWR. Should be around 10,000 (I think) which is the trailer tow capacity and weight of truck loaded. Truck weighs around 4300 lbs, max trailer cap I think is 6400 lbs, then you have to allow for gear and people.

 

You will be in good shape with those numbers. In the mountains you won't win any races but the truck should be fine.

 

You are fine... Get a weight distribution hitch with anti sway. I use a Husky centerline on my camper and enclosed trailer. When things start to go bad that will save your ass. The pulling power of the taco is not the issue, its the light weight of the truck that hurts us. The trailer pushes us around pretty bad. Your TT is very close in numbers to mine. You are right on the threshold of what the truck should tow according to the "specs"
http://changingears.com/rv-sec-calc-trailer-weight-tt.shtml

 

I towed a 3000 lb travel trailer, passengers and gear another 500 lbs, for 3000 miles back in July and other than terrrible gas mileage had no trouble. Learned to just put it in 4th gear when in the hills of the eastern states and could drive 70mph. Averaged 8 mpg on this trip and decided I'd go with a teardrop of some kind.

 

Capt Jrod Thanks for the calculator form. It was right on the money for my set up.

 

Looks like you play in the aviation industry air savage... This game is exactly like a weight and balance sheet on an airplane... I can carry four people in an archer 3 if I shed some fuel and watch the baggage. The plane will fly over loaded and out of whack (not by me ever )... Everything feels good but you know you're heavy. When it comes time to land is when it all shows up. With a trailer everything is cool until it's not. You will have little chance of recovery once the trailer starts to go nuts. The taco is very light and doesn't have the ability to help out. Like the plane, if you know the tricks you will live, but if it goes wrong it goes horribly wrong. Make sure the brakes are all perfect and the conditions are ideal. It sounds like you have plenty of common sense.

 

Your cargo capacity (anything in the cab or the box, including the hitch itself and the tongue weight) might be pushing it, technically. I think my dclb 4x4 rates at 1080#. So other than passengers, if you can throw it in the trailer, you might be fine there .
See kmitch's reply to my very similar thread here https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...-considering-purchasing.371420/#post-10165686
For what its worth I did buy the trailer I posted about. Hills can be a struggle at times but it does it. I carry very little in my box though. ..