JIMNLIN wrote:
Trucks carry weight determined by axle/tire load ratings. Many F250 owners that have weighed their trucks front and rear axles separately report rear axle weights in the 2800-3000 lb range.
Your F250 has 6100 RAWR which leaves the truck with around 3100-3300 lb of payload.
That's one way to look at it, but you're ignoring the overall GVWR of the truck (10,000) which is usually the limiting factor in most single rear wheel pickups. The GVWR is almost always less than the sum of the axle ratings, at least for the trucks I looked at.
My 2008 super duty F250 has a 6000 FAWR and a 6200 RAWR, but a 10,000 lb GVWR. My trucks actual scaled axle weights with full tank and loaded for travel (not hitched up) are, 4800 front (diesel engine) and 3000 rear, 7800 total. So to stay within the overall 10,000 GVWR, I'm limited to around 2200 pin weight, not the 3200 allowed by just using the rear axle rating.
