Cat Scale Results

Hammerboy wrote:

twodownzero wrote:
So your truck has 1,900 pounds of payload and with the wife on board, you're overloaded by over 400 pounds--over 20% of your payload capacity.

Why is your truck itself so heavy? Can you move load to the trailer? Mine weighs 7,100. I know newer trucks are heavier, but where did they put the extra thousand pounds?

Actually my truck weighs in at 7534# dry i'm assuming because I have 2466# payload according to the door sticker. The 8100# on the scale ticket is with Me, hitch, and full tank of diesel, that comes off the stated payload leaving me with the 1900# left over. Short of moving my wife to riding in the fifth I can't shift anything to the fifth and I don't think she would go for that ;-)

Dan

Edit: Now that I think about it I wonder if the door sticker includes a full tank of fuel? Me = 215#, hitch = 221#, 36 gallons fuel = 280# plus I added running boards and spray in bedliner, all that should be around 850# I would think but yet it scaled at 8100#. Who knows...:h

Something doesn't seem right about that. The "curb weight" my my truck was within 20 pounds of the actual weighed weight, and that includes a full tank of diesel. What kind of truck is it?

Your "payload" number should include all the options the truck has and full of fuel. While it's hard to argue with a weight ticket, 8100 pounds for a truck with one person and a trailer hitch in it sounds high to me. Like I said, new trucks are heavy, but my Ram weighs 7,080 and my hitch is ~180 pounds. If your truck is a long bed, I'd estimate another 300 pounds for that. Even then though, why is your truck so heavy?

Certainly the running boards and bedliner add a bit, but as trucks get heavier empty, they sure suck up GVWR pretty quickly. I'm wondering if the 3/4 ton truck is going to become completely extinct if they can't figure out how to put them on a diet!