spud1957 wrote:
Acei looks like your are looking at BROCHURE payload numbers. They mean absolutely nothing when it comes to determining actual payload of a specific truck. The 4K numbers you see are for a gas truck without any options. Take a look at some of the payload capacity labels on the dealers lot.
An F350 Crew Cab long box XL diesel SRW, with NO OPTIONS, has a payload roughly 3700lbs. A gas has 4000lbs. Diesels weigh more. Based on your list of weights you will be 260lbs under GVWR with the diesel. I guess it depends on how close to GVWR you want to be. You will be under your 7000lb axle rating.
Your call. If I was full timing with those weights I'd go with the F350 dually for the little bit extra money. When your spending these kind of dollars, $1000 isn't that much and gives you a GVWR of 14,000lbs and a 9650lb rear axle rating. That's gives you over 2000lbs add'l payload.
I'm only talking Ford but it's pretty much the same discussion with the other manufactures.
S
Right now, published payload numbers from Ford is the worst of the 3. On a standard bed SRW version with Diesel, the variation with the highest payload is 4070lb, and I will assume this is the stripped version. I would not be surprised if a well equipped version comes out to 3600lb for F350. But published numbers for Ram 3500 LARAMIE Megacab and Sierra 3500 Denali are above 4000 (both are well equipped). In case of Ram, quite a bit above this. Having said that, I'm going to visit the dealer and check out few yellow stickers to confirm (or blow) this...
$1k is definitely not the deal breaker, it is the size of the truck. We do expect to drive the truck in downtown Toronto area quite a bit during the summer while full timing. I'd rather build a lighter unit than to go with a DRW truck.
