Toyota Tacoma as a tow vehicle

We just recently returned home from the NW Meetup Rally in Cannon Beach Oregon and logged just under 2,200 miles.
We pull a 2018 rPod 180 with a 2011 Tacoma V6 PreRunner and I feel that this is a really good matchup of TV and trailer.
Pulling on both interstate and rural two-lane highways at 55 to 60 mph we got between 10.5 and 13 mph. I never had a problem on grades. I had plenty of power and shifted the auto trans manually, dropping to 3rd gear on the grades and staying out of overdrive completely.

While on highway one heading West out of Leggett, CA, the grade was so steep coming down that I was I second gear a lot and had to stop twice to cool down the trailer brakes. I could smell them getting hot, even with minimal use.

While at a state park in Oregon we camped next to a man from Virginia who had a 3,500 lb travel trailer and was towing with a four cylinder 4x4 Tacoma. I thought he was nuts to max out his towing capacity like that (he admitted that he was right up to the line and had no margin). He said that it was slow on the grades in second gear but that it was working.
I thought that it was an accident waiting to happen, and at the the very least asking for a mechanical failure.

Originally posted by sailor323 We tow our 179 with a 2000 Tacoma, 3.4 litre, V6, 4WD Standard 5 speed Transmission.

I do have a WDH, the only new are the leaf springs.

Hi everyone, we just picked up our R-Pod 180 last week towed it home without any issues, TV is a 2008 Toyota Tacoma. I had put off taking the truck in for the Factory recall of leaf spring replacement, but had this done the first thing this week and hooked up for a two day trip that we just came back from. We were noticing a lot of bounce that we had not experienced bringing the Pod home prior, perhaps there is a problem with the old shocks not liking new springs, 112k on the TV?