Let me call everyone back to reality.
You're fine with the taco. Check your tire pressure, keep the bearings in good shape, don't pile a lot of junk in the back of the trailer. Don't carry a bunch of crap you don't need.
Stay in the flatlands and don't get in a big hurry. A mini pickup is fine to pull a single axle trailer.
Listen to these guys and they will have you buying a Freightliner for a pop-up.
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Fellow Wolfpacker, I can't let your post go by without a comment and maybe bringing it REALLY back to Reality,
The gist of my post, which was liked a lot, was that you need to do the following.
Determine if you are overloading the Tacoma with your intended passengers and camping gear. Do NOT exceed the rated Cargo Capacity. It is a formula for disaster for the driveline, suspension and braking. IF OK....proceed to Step 2
Check the dry weight of the new Travel Trailer. No fluids, gear ,etc. There are truck stops all over the place, gravel scales, moving companies....probably one within 10 miles.
Load up the unit with the water you intend to travel with, if any. Put in your tools and mess and what you normally carry. Check the weight again. That is your NORMAL traveling weight.
Then load up (or you can weigh the stuff at home in the driveway with a bathroom scale....this ain't for selling gold. Add that weight to the Normal Traveling Weight...
If you exceed the rated GVWR or the Cargo Capacity of the Travel Trailer, then you will have to skinny it down and/or offload to the Tacoma.....assuming you have surplus.
If you don't have a surplus and are overweight, then either get a larger Travel Trailer with an increased GVWR or get a larger Tow Vehicle that has more Cargo Capacity.
You don't need a Freightliner. You just need FACTS...
From our point of view here, if you purchase a shotgun and it will take 3" shells in the chamber....and the chambers, like on my 1924 Fox are marked at 2 1/2, I don't think that many folks would to duck hunting with it and routinely run 3" 12 G Magnums through it.
Same point. Until you KNOW that you are within the stated specifications, do NOT take long trips....and if you are OK, then don't overload. You WILL be sorry and you can kill or injure your family or someone else.
If I had saved all the reports of accidents around the Raleigh Beltline where a "contractor" was towing a flat bed trailer with 7500 pounds of bricks, sheetrock, cement mixer, etc.....then I would fill up 20 posts here.
There have been many deaths....not an exaggeration where a local guy in a 1500 series truck either lost it or a wheel came or a tire failed. I can remember at least 3 deaths within the past several years.
I don't own stock in Freightliner and don't own one. But I do NOT exceed the capacity of my MH's towing or the hitch or the tow bar. I don't exceed the capacity of my hitch on my Yukon and check the tires before I haul...and they are RATED for the 3500 Axle....
Sorry for the long reply to your comment....but this is serious.....and maybe I sound like a "COP", but no one would go to a range where there was open shooting and no range control officer to keep order and safety...