Me Again wrote:
jrp wrote:
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.
In my state(Washington) one would just license for more than the manufactureers GVWR of 10,000 lbs and be good to go if under the axle/tire ratings. My 8800 GVWR truck is licensed to 12K. Tare wieght x 1.5 and then round up to the next even K is what they go by here.
You guys here would sideline every hotshot pickup in the country with your "weight Police" thinking.
As Jimnlin says, weight posts on RV forums become jokes on hotshot forums.
Chris
JIMNLIN and Chris are right. Most don't use GVWR, but go by RAWR...As suggested, if OP were to load his truck up with whatever he loads up with to go camping and get the truck weighed, see what drive axle weighs and subtract that from what your RAWR is...(if you don't have a 5er hitch in the bed of your truck, add about 200# for that.
One thing I would do is look more at the 5er's GVW, not it's empty or dry weight...it's far more realistic to add more weight...worse case, go with fully loaded GVW of 16,500#, you may never load to that, but one never knows until they do the weights at a CAT scale. As stated earlier, pin weight could fall between 2800 to 3300#, (but if you load your toy's in the back of the hauler as is set up to do, I believe it does take some pin weight off the truck...
I towed a 14,500 5er that weighed around 13,500, if not mistaken and it had a 2800# pin weight...Towed it with an 03' Chevy D/A 2500 in the mountains and it did ok...and I had 800# less GVWR than your truck has....Bottom line, do the weights as suggested and go from there:)
