Just letting you know, my dad had an 01 Ram 1500 5.9L V8, 4x4 off road as well. He's 60 years old, drives like a normal person. Never Pulled a trailer with it. Heaviest thing that it pulled was my quad in the back. The tranny went at 70k miles.
Amen ... our company had over 2000 of them, when i got my durango i asked how many of the trucks ate their tranny's he said almost all did it before 80k, since we startyed getting the new ones with the 4.7/5spd auto, we have been getting 50k more miles and 0 tranny issues.
pretty truck but good luck