7 Trailering-Friendly Features of the 2024 Chevy Silverado 1500

Many of our customers are interested in the Chevy Silverado 1500 for its trailering powers. With the 2024 model capable of trailering up to 13,300 lbs when properly equipped, the Silverado 1500 offers excellent towing abilities for a light-duty truck, combining work-ready features and everyday driving maneuverability that we know Kearns drivers appreciate.

If you’re looking for a Chevy Silverado for sale near Kearns, we’d love to show you all of the ways Chevy made this truck a trailering superhero. No matter how long you’ve been trailering with a pickup, it never exactly gets easy driving with a huge load behind your vehicle. That’s especially true when Utah winters pick up. So we love these seven trailering-friendly features of the 2024 Chevy Silverado 1500 that help you set up, monitor, and care for your trailer.

#1 – Super Cruise with Trailering

Driving down State Route 154 gets a little trickier when you have a huge trailer behind you. Traveling at high speeds simply poses extra risks when you’re towing. That’s why we like telling drivers about Super Cruise with Trailering. You might have already heard of Super Cruise, which is Chevy’s hands-free driver-assistance technology. But if you haven’t heard of it, the system uses advanced sensors and lidar mapping to take over steering and acceleration on compatible roads.

Here’s the best part: it can also help you when you’re trailering. When activated, Super Cruise with Trailering will adjust the distance between your Silverado and the vehicle in front of you to allow for a larger stopping distance. You can feel confident that if the traffic slows up ahead, your Silverado will begin to brake in plenty of time.

#2 – Outside Power-Adjustable Vertical Trailering Mirrors

Your usual Silverado 1500 exterior mirrors get the job done when you aren’t trailering. However, once you add a trailer, you need extra help seeing around your vehicle. That’s why these trailering mirrors are so excellent. They reach out further than the standard mirrors, increasing your field of vision, so you don’t just know what’s happening around your truck—you also know what’s happening around your trailer. As an added bonus, the upper glass is heated to quickly melt away ice and frost. That will certainly come in handy when Utah’s famous winter arrives.

#3 – The Trailering Package

If you want to take advantage of the Silverado 1500’s towing abilities, you’ll need to add the Trailering Package. This gets you a trailer hitch, a trailering hitch platform, a two-inch receiver hitch, and four-pin and seven-pin connectors. This means you can connect your trailer’s brakes and lights to your pickup and control them from your cab. This pairs well with the optional integrated trailer brake controller to adjust brake force. We also love to show customers Chevy’s Hitch Guidance in person. This is a feature you can see when you use the reverse camera. It will show you a close-up view of your hitch, helping you align your truck with your trailer.

#4 – An Auxiliary Trailer Camera

Being able to monitor what’s going on around, inside, and behind your trailer is very important, whether you’re transporting livestock or simply hauling equipment around Kearns. The auxiliary trailer camera gives you helpful camera views to do just that. One camera view is the Transparent Trailer view, which essentially lets you see through your trailer to monitor what’s happening behind it as if it were invisible. There’s also the Inside Trailer view, which allows you to supervise your actual cargo inside the trailer. Finally, there’s the Rear Trailer view, showing objects behind your trailer. Any member of our team will be happy to walk you through how you access these various views from inside your pickup.

#5 – Trailer Side Blind Zone Alert

As a part of your Silverado 1500’s driver-assist suite, you’ll get blind zone alerts for your pickup. These notify you when someone is approaching your blind spot, which can ensure safer lane changes and turns. However, when you’re trailering, you also need to know about vehicles approaching your trailer’s blind zone, and you will, thanks to the Trailer Side Blind Zone Alert. It relies on sensors in your back bumper to detect vehicles approaching your trailer’s blind zone and will let you know if someone is there so you don’t attempt any major maneuvers.

#6 – Trailer Tire Pressure and Temperature Sensors

Monitoring the tire pressures and temperatures of your pickup is an important part of preventing poor fuel economy and even blowouts. Monitoring your trailer’s tire pressures is just as important. That’s why you can see trailer tire information in your Silverado 1500 on a display screen in your cab.

Considering how cold the winters get in Kearns, it’s especially important to keep an eye on tire temperature. When tires get too cold, the pressure can drop drastically, which can pose several risks. Be sure to check these figures before heading out for long drives with your trailer and adding air to your tires if necessary.

#7 – The In-Vehicle Trailering App

This might be one of our favorite trailer-friendly features of the Silverado 1500. This intuitively designed app provides you with a wealth of information and important reminders regarding your trailer. First off, there’s the pre-departure checklist. You can add almost any item you want here that’s important for you to examine before heading out with a trailer. Common items include checking the hazard lights are working, double-checking trailer side view mirror angles, and testing the turn signals on your trailer.

Through this app, you can also run a trailer light sequence. With the simple tap of a button on your screen, you’ll initiate a light test sequence, and the vehicle will activate items like your brake lights, turn signals, and other important lights to ensure proper functioning. The app also provides important maintenance reminders, encouraging you to take a preventative approach to caring for your trailer. Plus, you’ll see trailer-specific mileage, so you’ll know exactly how far your trailer has traveled.

Trailer security alerts sound an alarm if someone attempts to detach the trailer from its hitch when the vehicle is parked. If you have an OnStar Safety & Security Plan membership, you’ll also receive a theft alert on your smartphone. Finally, trailer electrical diagnostics give you important information about the electrical components of your trailer.

Pick Up Your 2024 Silverado 1500 and Start Trailering

If you’re interested in checking out all of the great trailer-friendly features of the 2024 Silverado 1500 in person, we’d love to show them to you. We’re a short drive from Kearns and boast a friendly, professional staff that understands the unique needs of drivers in this area. Our team knows how to use every feature of each Silverado 1500 trim, so they can give you a tutorial on the features we covered today, as well as any others that you’re interested in.

We’re always honored when Kearns drivers make the trip to see us. We’ll take our time to understand your needs and show you models we believe will make your day-to-day life better. With dozens of Silverado 1500 options to check out and competitive prices, we’re your go-to dealership to find this terrific full-size, light-duty pickup.