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juzplanekrazy
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Sep 13, 2007

Whats Your Real Weights? Truck and Trailer. The Real Deal

I don’t know if it’s been done before or not but I was thinking about keeping a running list of real truck weights by year and type, and trailer weights by brand, size and what the total combined weig...
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Lakemann
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Feb 09, 2009
O.k. heres the deal, weighed my truck today. Its a 2008 Dodge 2500 Cummins 6.7 with an auto trans and an 8' bed. She came in right at 7620# with just me and a full tank of fuel. After reading ramcneal's post above me, its hard to imagine that an extra 2 feet of driveshaft,frame and sheet metal would end up being 580# more. Should I have gotten a shortbed and used that extra 580 elsewhere?

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