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NWC Ohio | 2500 gallon x 10.6 (28%) is 26,500 pounds, plus tanks, and anything else you put on the trailer. Now add in the weight of the trailer, your well over 31,000 pounds gross weight of the trailer your trying to pull.
Your gooseneck trailer rated at 20,000 pounds is GROSS Trailer weight, which means total weight of trailer and its cargo. So if trailer weighs 6,000 empty, you can add 14,000 pounds of cargo. I’ve seen a 20,000 pound (advertised) rated gooseneck with a mfg tag that specified 20,000 on trailer axles and 2,500 on the gooseneck hitch for a combined 22,500 gross vehicle weight rating for the trailer. So you may need to look closer at your trailers mfg tag for theses specifics.
If your help can’t shift a split-able transmission (8,9,10,13 speed) you certainly can’t trust them to drive a pickup with the load you’re intending. Do it right, get a single axle semi with some sorta automatic or auto shift and a proper trailer even if it means getting a fifth-wheel (semi) trailer to set up for you’re use. You will be MUCH happier and MUCH safer. Could buy a tandem truck and set it up to haul your intended load as well if you wanted to get away from the truck and trailer combo.
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Small semi type truck to haul 2500 gallons of fertilizer
