About Towing Capacity Check
Radif Partners reads the towing guides and spec sheets that Ford, Chevrolet, Ram, Jeep, Kia and Toyota publish for every model year, and keeps the ratings line by line: engine, cab, axle ratio, tow package, GCWR and the trailer weight that goes with them. The checker then adds your trailer, its tongue weight, your passengers and your cargo, and tests each rating in turn. Every number names its guide, page and year. The site sells no truck, hitch or trailer and asks for no contact details.
The gap this site fills
Ask a search engine how much a truck can tow and the answers come from three kinds of pages. Dealers and RV lots publish one headline figure and a form to request a quote. Magazines rank vehicles by their best rating, without the configuration that reaches it or the payload that limits it. The makers themselves print the complete tables, but in long PDF guides that change every model year and that few people open. None of them takes your own trailer, family and gear and tells you which limit you reach first.
The pages that rank for towing capacity belong to dealers and RV lots, who want your phone number, to magazines that print one "up to" figure per model, and to the makers themselves, who bury the full tables in PDF guides. This site copies every configuration row of those guides, with the model year and the page, and then checks your own trailer against the five limits that decide whether a tow is legal: trailer rating, tongue weight, payload, GVWR and GCWR. Nothing to sign up for, nothing for sale.
Who publishes it
The site is published by Radif Partners, a company that builds calculators on public rules and public data. It is not a vehicle maker, a dealer, a hitch installer, an RV seller or an insurer. It has no partner to send you to, receives no commission and carries no affiliate link.
Radif Partners
49 rue du Ressort
63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
contact@towingcapacitycheck.com
What we rely on
2,070 configuration rows from the towing documents of Ford, Ram, Chevrolet, Toyota, Jeep, Kia, each stored with its model year, its document and its page; the federal rules on the certification label (49 CFR 567.4) and the tire and loading placard (49 CFR 571.110), which say where the GVWR, the axle ratings and the payload of your own vehicle are printed.
What the site leaves out
Vehicles whose maker's documents could not be read and cited; model years before the earliest document we hold; aftermarket hitches, suspension kits and their claims; and state trailer laws, which we describe only where a maker's guide does. The method page lists every document and reading rule; the editorial policy explains corrections.
Contact
contact@towingcapacitycheck.com, for corrections and newer guides. We answer questions about a figure or a document, not about whether your own rig is safe to drive.