Beadle Chevrolet GMC · Mobridge, SD
Chevrolet Silverado 3500 HD for Sale in Mobridge, SD
The one-ton for the outfit that runs at capacity — single rear wheel or dually, gas V8 or Duramax. New and pre-owned trucks on the lot at 2200 US Hwy 12, newest first — full buyers guide below the listings.
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The One-Ton in Our Front Row Has Single Rear Wheels
Most people walk onto the lot assuming a one-ton means a dually. The Silverado 3500 HD we have in the front row is a single-rear-wheel LT Crew Cab long bed 4WD in Summit White, and for a lot of outfits around Mobridge that is the right truck: one-ton springs and one-ton axle under a body you can still park between the lines at the co-op.
Properly equipped with the Duramax, that truck is rated for 20,000 lb on a conventional hitch and 21,490 lb on a gooseneck, with a 12,250 lb gross vehicle weight rating and 4,309 lb of payload. With the gas V8 the same truck is rated for 16,000 lb conventional and 18,230 lb gooseneck, with an 11,700 lb rating and 4,472 lb of payload. The gas truck carries more and pulls less, which is the trade nobody expects.
One thing worth knowing before you shop by spec sheet: the model code does not settle it. Chevrolet heads the CK30943 column "with Single or Dual Rear Wheel," so the code alone will not tell you what is under the back of a given truck. The wheel and tire codes, the door-jamb label and a walk around the back will. Bring us the trailer and we will match it to the label on the specific truck, which is always the final word.
4,472 lb
Payload, single rear wheel Crew Cab long bed 4WD, gas V8, properly equipped
21,490 lb
Gooseneck on that same single-rear-wheel truck with the Duramax, properly equipped
20,000 lb
Conventional hitch with the Duramax on every configuration except the single-rear-wheel Regular Cab
31,000 lb
Gooseneck on a Crew Cab long bed 4WD dually with the Duramax, properly equipped
14,000 lb
Gross vehicle weight rating on every Silverado 3500 HD dually
Do You Actually Need a Dually?
1. Weigh the trailer loaded
Not the empty weight off the sticker. Loaded, the way it leaves your place in October.
2. Put the kingpin load against payload
Run 15 to 25 percent of the loaded trailer, add people, fuel caddy and tack, and compare it with the payload of the exact truck. This is where duallys get bought.
3. Count how often
Twice a year at capacity is a single-rear-wheel truck with good planning. Every week is a dually.
The honest cost column: a dually is 14.90 in wider fender to fender, has 10.39 in of rear ground clearance instead of 11.14, runs six tires instead of four, and takes a tire size you will not find at every shop on a Sunday. The full single-rear-wheel versus dually comparison · Dually section of the buyers guide
Four Trims, and Every One Can Be a Dually
Work Truck, LT, LTZ and High Country. That is the whole ladder on a Silverado 3500 HD — there is no Custom and no ZR2 up here, and both of those exist on the 2500 HD. It is a shorter list than people expect, and it is a cleaner one.
Dual rear wheels are not a trim decision. A dually is a long bed with the 14,000 lb gross vehicle weight rating, and you can order it that way on any of the four trims, right up to a High Country. If you want leather and a dually, you can have both.
You Can Have the Looks or You Can Have the Axle
This is the rule that surprises everybody, and it holds for both model years and all four trims: the Z71 Off-Road Package, Trail Boss, the Z71 Chrome Sport Edition, Midnight Edition, the LTZ Premium package and the Stars and Steel edition are every one of them barred from a truck with dual rear wheels.
A Silverado 3500 HD dually is a plain Work Truck, LT, LTZ or High Country. No off-road badge, no blackout treatment, no special edition. If a listing anywhere shows you a Z71-badged dually, the badge and the axle do not belong to the same truck.
Which Truck Owns the Big Number
The 36,000 lb gooseneck headline belongs to exactly one truck: a Work Truck, 2WD Regular Cab long bed dually with the Duramax and the Max Trailering Package, properly equipped. That same Regular Cab truck without the package is rated 35,500 lb.
It is a real rating and it is not the truck you are shopping for. Nobody around here orders a two-wheel-drive regular cab to pull cattle out of a river-breaks pasture in March.
The number that governs a working outfit is the combination rating, not the tow rating. A dual-rear-wheel Duramax is rated at 40,000 lb of gross combination weight with a gooseneck hitch. Swap to a fifth-wheel hitch and the combination rating for that same truck is 32,000 lb, which is a real difference and it catches people who buy the camper before the truck.
Gooseneck or fifth-wheel, and why the ratings differ
Silverado 3500 HD Quick Specs: Single Rear Wheel vs Dually
Every figure below is a 2026 rating for a properly equipped truck and depends on cab, bed, drive, engine and packages. Chevrolet has not published ratings for the 2027 trucks. Confirm the rating on the trailering label in the driver door jamb before you hitch up.
| Spec | Single Rear Wheel | Dual Rear Wheel |
|---|---|---|
| Engines | 6.6L gas V8, 401 hp and 464 lb-ft with a 3.73 axle. 6.6L Duramax turbo-diesel, 470 hp and 975 lb-ft with a 3.42 axle, including a block heater, an exhaust brake and a 220-amp alternator. Both run a 10-speed automatic, and the engine sets the axle. | |
| Conventional towing | 16,000 lb with the gas V8; 20,000 lb with the Duramax on every configuration except the Regular Cab, which is 14,500 lb | 17,600 to 18,700 lb with the gas V8; 20,000 lb with the Duramax |
| Gooseneck or fifth-wheel | 21,200 to 22,420 lb with the Duramax, including 21,490 lb on a 4WD Crew Cab long bed | 30,900 to 31,440 lb on Crew and Double Cab duallys, including 31,000 lb on a 4WD Crew Cab long bed. The 2WD Regular Cab long bed dually is the one rated 35,500 lb, or 36,000 lb with the Max Trailering Package. |
| Max payload | Up to 4,590 lb; 4,472 lb on a 4WD Crew Cab long bed with the gas V8 and 4,309 lb with the Duramax | Up to 7,290 lb on a 2WD Regular Cab with the gas V8, the 2026 maximum |
| GVWR and rear axle rating | 10,950 to 12,250 lb; rear axle rated 7,250 lb | 14,000 lb on every dually; rear axle rated 10,400 lb |
| Body width | 81.85 in, or 81.75 in on a Regular Cab | 96.75 in fender to fender without mirrors, 14.90 in wider |
| Trims | Work Truck, LT, LTZ and High Country. There is no Custom and no ZR2 on the 3500 HD. All four can be ordered as a dually, and none of them can be ordered as a dually with an off-road or appearance package. | |
2026 ratings. No 2027 ratings are published.
2026 or 2027?
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Single rear wheel or dually
The decision worked all the way through, with the numbers and the costs on both sides.
The package rule
Every off-road and appearance package that a Silverado 3500 HD dually cannot have, and why.
The truck on our lot
What a single-rear-wheel Crew Cab long bed is actually rated for, gas and diesel.
Silverado or Sierra
Two one-tons on the same lot, forty feet apart. Where they are identical and where they are not.
More Truck, Less Truck, or the Other Badge
If the pin weight clears payload with room to spare and you are hitching up twice a year, you are probably shopping one size up from what you need. The Silverado 2500 HD is on the same lot and it rides better empty.
The Sierra 3500 HD is here too, usually forty feet away. Same frame and the same two engines, a different trim ladder and different payload and dimension figures, so it is worth walking both.
And if you are cross-shopping the F-350 or the Ram 3500, we would rather have that conversation with the spec sheets open than pretend it is not happening.
Chevrolet Silverado 2500 HD · GMC Sierra 3500 HD · How it stacks up
Silverado 3500 HD Questions We Get in Mobridge
Do I need a dually?
Work the kingpin load, not the tow rating. Take the loaded weight of the gooseneck, figure 15 to 25 percent of it onto the hitch, add your people, fuel and tack, and compare that with the payload of the exact truck. A single-rear-wheel Crew Cab long bed 4WD carries 4,309 lb with the Duramax, which covers a lot of trailers. If you are over, or you are at capacity every week rather than twice a year, buy the dually.
How much wider is a dually?
96.75 in fender to fender without mirrors, against 81.85 in for a single-rear-wheel Crew Cab. That is 14.90 in, and you feel every inch of it in a drive-through, a car wash and an older machine shed door. Rear ground clearance also drops from 11.14 in to 10.39 in.
Does the model code tell me if a truck is a dually?
No. Chevrolet heads the CK30943 column "with Single or Dual Rear Wheel," so the code covers both. What settles it is the dual-rear-wheel option code on the window sticker, the gross vehicle weight rating on the door-jamb label, the wheel and tire codes, or simply walking around the back of the truck.
Can I get a Z71 dually?
No, and that catches a lot of people. The Z71 Off-Road Package, Trail Boss, the Z71 Chrome Sport Edition, Midnight Edition, the LTZ Premium package and Stars and Steel are all unavailable on a truck with dual rear wheels, in both model years and on all four trims. A dually is a plain Work Truck, LT, LTZ or High Country.
Which trims can be ordered as a dually?
All four. Work Truck, LT, LTZ and High Country can each be built with dual rear wheels on a long bed at a 14,000 lb gross vehicle weight rating. The axle is not a trim decision on this truck, which is a genuine difference from how some competitors package it.
Is there a Custom or a ZR2 version of the 3500 HD?
No on both. The Custom trim and the ZR2 exist on the Silverado 2500 HD and stop there. On the 3500 HD the ladder is Work Truck, LT, LTZ and High Country, and the off-road content available to you is the Z71 Off-Road Package on a single-rear-wheel truck.
Silverado 3500 HD or Sierra 3500 HD?
Same frame, same two engines, same trailering hardware, and identical ratings on most shared configurations. Where they part company is the trim ladder, the tailgate name, every Crew Cab payload and curb weight, and every overall length. We stock both, so the real answer is to sit in each one and look at what each ladder gives you for the money. The full head-to-head is here.
Do I need a 3500 HD, or is a 2500 HD enough?
If your pin weight clears the payload of a three-quarter-ton with room for people and gear, the 2500 HD is the better daily truck and it rides better empty. If it is close, or you are loading at capacity regularly, step up. The Silverado 2500 HD page works that question all the way through.
Come See One at 2200 US Hwy 12
Bring your loaded trailer weight and your pin weight and we will put them against the door-jamb label on the exact truck, single rear wheel or dually. Beadle Chevrolet GMC, 2200 US Hwy 12, Mobridge, SD 57601. Sales is open Monday through Friday and Saturday mornings — call or text 605-845-7277.
Written by Lexy Tabbert, Director of Sales and Marketing, Beadle Auto Group.