If you can't stop your travel trailer with your 1/2 ton truck, you need to have the trailer brakes, or brake controller checked. There's no reason a reasonable sized trailer should be that hard to stop with modern brake controls, working trailer brakes, and modern disc truck brakes.
3/4 Ton trucks don't cost that much more than 1/2 tons, but if a 1/2 ton is your move, thenI would recommend...
E Rated tires on the truck
Air bags to accommodate extra tongue weight (most people load trailers too light on the tongue), and keep the rig mostly level.
A WD hitch WITH sway bars, not just the weight distributing bars, but an actual sway bar (or two).
Learn to load the trailer right, get enough tongue weight, but not too much, etc...
As my Uncle Bud would say "Don't worry about the mule son, just load the wagon!"
3/4 Ton trucks don't cost that much more than 1/2 tons, but if a 1/2 ton is your move, thenI would recommend...
E Rated tires on the truck
Air bags to accommodate extra tongue weight (most people load trailers too light on the tongue), and keep the rig mostly level.
A WD hitch WITH sway bars, not just the weight distributing bars, but an actual sway bar (or two).
Learn to load the trailer right, get enough tongue weight, but not too much, etc...
As my Uncle Bud would say "Don't worry about the mule son, just load the wagon!"
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