Cargo carrying capacity
We have been traveling in our 2006 PW Excel, built on a Ford E-350 chassis, for 7 years. We have never had it weighed. Before our first trip, I made an estimate of the weight in each compartment and a...
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jjson775 wrote:
This is an important safety issue. Bigger RVs, especially Class Cs routinely run overweight. I suspect this is less of a problem with our Class Bs but am not sure. In case of a major insurance claim over an accident, I wonder if the insurance company might evade responsibility if the unit was overloaded. Not easy to determine this, but with a lot of money involved it can be done.
I may stop at a truck scale on this trip just to satisfy myself that we are OK.
It was a bigger problem than you might think for B's when the RV manufacturers were using the 2500 Sprinter's. I did a little checking and found that in 2007 a RT 210 had a GVWR of 9,600 lbs and a unloaded vehicle weight of 8,300 lbs. A RT RS Sprinter's (2500 chassis)GVWR was 8,550 lbs and unloaded weight was 7,300 lbs. That's 1,250 lbs of CCC in the case of the Sprinter and 1,300 lbs in the case of the RT 210 wide body. Checking a little closer you will find that the unloaded weight includes only the base vehicle and fuel, not included is a driver, any passengers, water, propane, generator, optional equipment and your stuff. Not hard to overload either of these two RVs and likely the reason that most are now only using the 3500 Sprinter chassis and not the 2500.
