How this works

A towing rating is a safety number, so the rule here is simple: we only show what the manufacturer printed, and we show you where.

Where the numbers come from

Each rating is copied from a document the vehicle's maker published: a towing guide, a specification sheet, a press specification page or an owner's manual. There are 583 of them behind the 33,222 ratings on the site, all listed on the sources page. Every row links to its document and gives the page.

For a few older vehicles we could not find a manufacturer document and used the Trailer Life annual towing guide. Those pages say so at the top.

What we do not do

• We do not calculate a rating, for example by subtracting a truck's weight from its combined weight rating.
• We do not copy a figure from a neighbouring model year.
• We do not guess a hitch type. If the table does not name one, the page says the hitch type is not stated.

How each number is checked

A program confirms that every rating appears on the page it cites. Separately, a sample of tables is read a second time from scratch and compared cell by cell with the first reading, to catch a number that is on the right page and in the wrong row.

Manufacturers make mistakes too. Where a document contradicts itself, we show what it prints and add a note. Where a printed figure is plainly a typo, we leave the rating blank.

Before you tow

The rating for your own vehicle is on the label inside the driver's door and in your owner's manual. It depends on options this site cannot see, and on how many people and how much cargo you carry. Use these tables to compare and to know what to look for, then confirm against your own truck.

How the site is paid for

Some pages link to towing equipment on Amazon, and those links are marked as paid. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. They are for equipment the manufacturer's own document names for a vehicle, parts sold to fit it, equipment a guide or calculator explains, or general towing equipment on the pages that start from a trailer. No shop supplies, checks or influences a rating.

Report a number that is wrong

Tell us the vehicle, the year, the figure and what the source says. We check it against the document and fix the page. Leave an email address if you want to hear back.

What the site records

The site counts how many times each calculator and the vehicle lookup are used, and how many times paid links and source documents are opened, by day and by page. A count holds nothing about you: it sets no cookie and no address is kept. A VIN typed into the lookup goes to NHTSA's decoder and never to us. A report sent with the form above is kept so we can act on it.

Visits are counted so we can see which pages are read and how people find them. Ahrefs Web Analytics does this without cookies. Google Analytics does it too, and sets cookies in your browser to tell one visit from another.