01-16-2023, 12:37 AM
Peapodd I agree with Joe. Know your individual vehicle’s payload capacity (quite different from the towing capacity). Usually found in some form on the sticker of the driver’s door jam. My truck’s payload is around 2,000 lbs. subtract my weight and your left with a lot less! So in a pinch I’ll haul our 200 gallon tank in the truck bed, but for the 535 gallon leg tank I use a utility trailer with an axle designed for 5,000 lbs. The max I put in the leg tank is 480 gallons. If I fill it to 535 gal. I am way over the trailer’s axle weight (not to mention the additional weight of the empty tank at 200 lbs., and the trailer weighs 890 lbs.). Common single axle utility trailers have axles rated for about 3,200 lbs.