Sorry if this has been discussed recently. I cannot find the search feature on this forum anymore.
I am looking at a Toyota Tundra Limited. it has the 5.7 liter engine with standard tow package, including 4.3 axle.
Does anyone have any thoughts to please share on this vehicle for hauling horses? It will haul a 2 horse 4 Star Runabout bumper pull.
Thank you!
My husband briefly had a tundra that actually was rated to tow a hire weight than my 3/4 ton ram. I never towed my horses with it, but we did tow our side by side on a flat bed and our kubota on the flat bed. It towed well. I’m not sure I’d tow anything more than a 2 horse with it.
I haul my two quarter horses in a two-horse bumper pull with my Tundra and have no problems. But only for local drives. If I’m going to get on the interstate I use my Dodge 3500 truck. I live in Colorado and sometimes have mountains to get over.
About 10 years ago I had a Tundra that I used to haul a small 2 horse bumper pull. I had no issues with this setup, with an electric braking system installed. I was typically hauling smaller Quarter Horses, both for local and longer distance highway trips on fairly flat terrain.
I used to have a Toyota Tundra - same engine with factory tow package. I used to tow a 2 horse all aluminum GN … mostly with just one horse and mostly for short distances. The truck handled the trailer very well. I also used to drive it between Central Florida and Western NY (used as “moving van” … didn’t haul the horses myself) and it did well on the highway – and through the mountains in Pennsylvania and Virginia (on the I85 route). So I would think you’d be fine. But just be sure you understand the weight limits and check your weights. But a BP puts less weight in the truck you should be fine.
I adore my 2015 5.7L Tundra with tow package. It is by far the best tow vehicle I’ve ever owned, including my 1999 diesel F-350. It feels extremely safe and capable when towing, in addition to being a great truck overall. I have a 2-horse bumper pull with dressing room. Last year I drove up from Florida with two 1,500-1,600 lb WBs. My trainer liked my truck so much that her husband bought one after we got home. I’ve also taken one large horse across the mountains to KY with no problem.
My only complaint at all is that the gas mileage sucks. As in, maybe 13-15 mpg unloaded and 8-12 with a trailer. Thankfully it’s not my daily driver.
I’m probably the least qualified poster here to comment, but I hauled a 2 horse BP with my 2010 Tundra, no issue. Local hauls only FWIW. I felt like I had plenty of truck.
ETA: It was my husband’s daily driver and we have kept it on as our “extra” car. I drive it a lot of the time and simply adore it - except for parking in tight suburban areas. 
I have a 2010 Tundra that I bought new in 2009 with towing package and added a trailer braking system. I have hauled a 2 horse bumperpull for nearly ten years and the truck has been great. When hauling just one warmblood, you could barely feel the trailer. With two big boys in the trailer, I could feel it when stopping on or hauling up steep hills, but it always handled the load well. I haul through the mountains, so the truck gets a workout.
For a bumper pull trailer, it’s a great truck.
Google “Toyota Tundra Owners Manual” and you’ll find many different years on line. Get the one for the year and model truck you’re looking at. Go to the Index and look up “Weight.” You’ll find an entry for the GCWR of that vehicle. Subtract the curb weight of the truck and you know how much trailer you can legally pull. That number is usually a “dead weight” and if you’re pulling a “live weight” (animals, fluids, etc.) they you should likely reduce that weight some to account for cargo movement.
How much? How brave and bold are you?!?!?!
I just did for model year 2018 on page 177 and was frankly surprised by the numbers. I’m not sure I’m that brave and bold!!! 
G.
This is purely hearsay, and of very little concern to those of you in Texas etc, but… My uncle owns a wrecking yard here in Ontario, and he’s told me that he’s never seen a Tundra come in that wasn’t rusted out underneath. They looked fine (other than being wrecked) on the surface, but underneath? Rusted through. So. We do salt the heck out of the roads up here, but it’s an interesting data point.
trailered for years with tundras - 16’ bumper pull stock. Liked the 2008 reg cab better than the 2012 crewcab - the crewcab has less payload and squatted with the bigger horses in the trailer. Enough power and no problem breaking, thought about modifying it to improve the squatting but upgraded to a new f250 last year as it gets better fuel mileage and I needed to be able to put the 2000lbs in the back to pick up bulk totes of feed without the flatdeck.
I love my Tundra for towing! I’m on my second Tundra, got a solid 10 years & 250K miles out of the first one I tow at altitude and in the desert, in squirrelly snow and on a lot of dirt roads as well as hwy, never had a problem. I’ve had the CrewMax cab on both my Tundras so my dogs could ride inside. My trailer is a large 2 horse slant load, and loads include regular horses and drafts, and never had any problems with it. Handles like a passenger car. I LOVE my Tundras. I plan ot get another one when I hit 250K with my current truck.
I’m on my second V8 Tundra (first was 2003 and now 2017) and haul a 2H Trail-et w dressing room and highly recommend an anti-sway system. Not expensive and what a difference in the tow experience. No matter the wind
the rig does not move around - no sway. And boy does that feel good on the highway when semi’s are flying by.
We’re on our second Tundra and we LOVE it! We’ve had a 2016 Limited TRD CrewMax and now we have a 2019 Limited CrewMax without the TRD and it hauls better than our previous one did! We have an 18’ River Valley 2H BP with side ramp and I’ve hauled to Southern Pines with our old Homesteader 2H BP trailer and most recently took our previous 2016 Tundra to Kentucky Horse Park with two horses and fully loaded for the past TB Makeover from Winchester, Virginia. The stock tow package and breaking system is more than enough and it’s my understanding and been told to us multiple times by a mechanic at Blue Ridge Trailer Sales that the Tundra is rated like a 2 ton and not a 1500 and has a lot more capacity. I struggled hauling my old trailer with a Chevy 1500 and it couldn’t even pull out of my old barn without spinning wheels with one horse…Our 2016 survived 12.5k in damage from hitting a deer, being side swiped with my trailer attached and dropping 1’ into a ditch by a Ford 450 that hit me at 45-55 mph, was traded with 102k miles on it and was my husband’s daily drive. Our new Tundra is the Cadet Blue and looks very sharp with our rig…BUY the Tundra!!!
Thanks for this input.
I am interested in a 2014-2016 5.7 Tundra with tow package to tow a 2 horse aluminum gooseneck (the lightest I can find).
I have researched the other Tundra threads on COTH, and ran the numbers.
I live in Central Florida and my goal is to generally just tow one horse to local shows, trails and horse camping. I would like a GN in order to make up a very rudimentary weekender (I only need it to be insulated, with mattress, roof AC, plastic storage compartments I will add myself). The numbers work with 2 horses but I have one and plan to stick to towing my guy only.
The rust issue is supposedly a past issue. There was a class action suit and it is my understanding that they will still replace the frame on some models if you have a hole the size of a quarter. My 2008 was one of those rust bucket trucks. Everything else was fine except for the frame. I did replace it with a new Tundra in 2017 once my research convinced showed that the problem had been solved. I just hope I’m right.
Two Tundra family here. I tow a 2H Logan with dressing room; typically with one horse. Variety of distances, some highway and mountain passes but mostly local.
Tundra has factory tow package, electric brakes system, and aftermarket rear suspension air bags.
Love everything except the gas mileage.
We’ve had two Tundras - actually just traded the 2017 because we needed a vehicle with better mileage since I drive a lot. But! We use our 2007 Tundra (5.7 liter engine; tow package) to haul our 16-foot gooseneck steel trailer all the time. It’s great, except the mileage is poor, as others have stated. Almost nothing has gone wrong with this truck in its 260,000-mile lifetime thus far. Our mechanic is in love with it - can’t believe how tight and leak-free it’s been. Hauls very, very easily, and we’re at 5,000 feet, plus mountain passes. No rust for us, though - desert country.
Just be careful re the weight you add to the trailer and also how much you put in the truck so you don’t exceed the payload weight for the truck.
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