Weight Police
I have never made a comment about the weight police but I thought this may be interesting: First photo was a 41' Toy Hauler with full water tanks and 30 gallon fuel tank for Hauler. Gen...
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RinconVTR wrote:
Both are VERY likely within the limits of OEM specs as well as the the so called "weight police" freaks on here.
I highly doubt that. It depends on what's on board that toy hauler but 4,000 pounds of pin weight is going to overload probably every 3/4 ton, 4 door truck on the planet.
Toolguy5 wrote:
Before I bought my truck a week ago. I was shopping for about 2 months. Did a lot of research. There is very little difference between 2500 and 3500 as well as the 250 and 350, all SRW.
They all are rated the same for towing. The GVWR is about 1500 lbs more on the 1 ton.
I have not checked the 1/2 tons out but I would imagine that those have been beefed up to tow more as well as the GVWR.
I'm just saying.
A 1500 pound difference in GVWR results in a 40% difference in payload capacity. 1500 pounds seems like nothing until you realize that over 70% of the GVWR is eaten up by the truck weight--the rest is what is available for payload, aka, pin/hitch weight when towing. It isn't insignificant.
