Chevy has always offered some of the most capable towing rigs in the industry. To maintain safety and long-term reliability, you must familiarize yourself with your truck’s specific towing limits and requirements. Learn more in this 2025 Chevy truck towing guide.
2025 Chevy Truck Towing Guide
Safety Should Always Be Your First Concern
Towing can be tricky because it dramatically changes how your vehicle performs. It’ll take longer to speed up, need more distance to stop, and require extra care when reversing or making turns. With a loaded trailer behind you, you’ll also notice more blind spots and maybe even a bit of sway from crosswinds, uneven roads, or passing traffic.
A few precautions can go a long way toward keeping you and other road users safe. The biggest one is choosing the right truck for the job. You wouldn’t want to take on a Silverado 1500-sized job with a Colorado. Next, make sure you use a proper coupling device (ball, fifth wheel, or gooseneck hitch). Your Chevy dealer can provide guidance on both. And lastly, follow posted trailer speed limits and avoid sudden stops, sharp turns, and quick takeoffs.
Factors That Affect Your Towing Capacity
How much your truck can pull depends on a bunch of things, such as the engine, suspension, frame, axles, wheels, accessories, type and quality of the hitch, whether the trailer has brakes, and even the weight of the passengers. Simply put, there isn’t a generic towing capacity. It’s unique to your truck.
Figuring Out How Much Your Truck Can Pull
Of all the different weight ratings, your vehicle’s payload capacity is usually the most restrictive, so that’s the one we’ll use for this calculation. This number indicates the total weight your truck can safely carry, including people and cargo. You’ll find it on the driver’s side door jamb.
Start by adding the combined weight of yourself, your passengers, the hitch, and everything you’re bringing along (or, for the most accurate number, take your fully packed truck to a CAT Scale). If that number exceeds your pickup truck’s payload rating, towing isn’t recommended. If it’s under, subtract that number from your payload rating to find your available tongue rating. Divide that tongue weight by 0.15 to estimate the maximum loaded trailer weight you can safely tow.
Trailering Tech Makes Towing Easy
Modern driving runs on tech, and trailering is now very much part of that story. Depending on your vehicle’s equipment, you might get handy features like Trailer Sway Control, an integrated Trailer Brake Controller, Trailer Side Blind Zone Assist, and up to eight available camera views offering three hitch views, four parking views, and seven driving views.
Find your ideal towing machine today. Reach out to First State Chevrolet, and schedule a test drive.
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