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Thread: The end of DRW?
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05-20-2021, 08:00 PM #21
All that extra surface area that is great for stability and spreading out the weight has the opposite effect with snow. Also, snow likes to get caught between the rear wheels. Last winter I had my hitch in the truck (200lbs), loaded tool box (175lbs) and 600lbs of sandbags. Didnt make any difference, the back end was all over the road and the tired only had about 1500miles on them.
One more thing, when we lived in VA, the little snow there wasnt bad with a DRW. But in Idaho where the road stays white most of the winter, it didnt feel very safe driving the DRW.
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05-20-2021, 08:06 PM #22
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Thank you FT4Now, great insight, helpful to understand.
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05-20-2021, 08:12 PM #23
Yep, snow without a lot of payload is the Achilles heel of DRW. With the wet snows here in the NE It's particularly miserable. It's not just the reduced contact pressure either. Full floating rear end it efficient delivering the torque, and I couldn't even imagine if the torque management neutering of the Cummins could be released (with hogging out the trans).
Until I'm chasing 70deg, my daily driver is a 1500 crew/long/4x/3.92/Hemi.Last edited by geotex1; 05-20-2021 at 08:14 PM.
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05-20-2021, 08:48 PM #24
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Brilliantly enlightening, thank you gents!
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05-21-2021, 06:25 AM #25
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Timely thread for me. I have been thinking about updating my truck to either a long bed SRW, or a dually. Main reason is the longer wheelbase, not needing the Reese Sidewinder I currently have, and about 400 lbs more payload. Being my only vehicle, in a smaller town with roads that are interesting enough with a SRW, I am not fond of getting a dually. All more food for thought. At the current (CAT scale) weight I have my trailer at a SRW will work.
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05-21-2021, 09:13 AM #26
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For us having the DRW is all about weight management. with our 16.8K GVWR, 3500 pin weight DRW is the only way to go. But its nice to think that if we have a flat on the rear we have the second tire to get us off the road to a safe place to change the flat, kind of already done that, inside DRW got a big screw in it and was losing air, TPMS let us know before it went flat. Of course no help if its a front tire.
Have seen a very few RVs that had DRW on the rig axles.
On super singles, if ever made available for 1 Ton DRW, or for those rare RVs that have DRW, it would play havoc for tire rotation, of course the tire rims would be totally different.Steve & Tami Cass - Escapee's, FMCA Members, Texas Fulltimers Since July 2020
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05-22-2021, 09:37 PM #27
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There is peace of mind that comes with DRW, for all the reasons mentioned in this thread. That said, we all tend to mind TPMS / tread and travel architecture religiously, and we have a multitude of electronics that assist us. I do sacrifice on turn radius with an SRW/standard bed, but that's about my only calculable loss. 12,700 miles towing it, pretty happy, but if any of ya'll with DRW wanna swap trucks, please let me know. (we did have to ask one gentleman to reposition his truck from the road to get out of Lynchburg) About to head into the Wyoming winds.
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05-26-2021, 03:33 PM #28
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Interesting thread indeed.
First, thanks to @geotex1 for putting the super single debate to rest for me. I have no experience with them but the people I talk to say that the debate is as fierce as the Ford Chevy debate ever has been.
Now my dually story. When we were weekend warriors putting maybe 1000 miles a year on it, the GM 2500 did the job with my 16k# Montana loaded to 15k. Yes it was overloaded and I caught the wrath from this group for it (rightfully so). But it's hard to justify a new truck for 1000 miles a year and that truck actually performed very well.
When we decided to go full time, obviously the game changed. The 5th wheel got a little lighter, but then the decision was about the truck doing the job or doing it well. When I get my 2020 F350 dually set up the way I want it, I'll have 100 gallons of water and hopefully 1000# of tools on the truck.
For me, going dually was a no brainer and I can't be happier with it.
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05-26-2021, 06:57 PM #29
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05-26-2021, 07:19 PM #30
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That's an interesting approach of which I've not heard yet. Any dually owners out there want to share on that approach?
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