Question about weight ratings

SoundGuy wrote:

tim1970 wrote:
I also have a hard time believing the GVWR comes out to a nice even number of exactly 10,000.

SoundGuy wrote:
Believe what you want but the reality is that GVWR isn't a number that "comes out" to anything ... it's a number assigned to each vehicle by the manufacturer as the maximum that vehicle should ever weigh under any circumstances.

Grit dog wrote:
Believe what you want but GVW is a rating assigned by the DOT or some govt organization based loosely on the general approved capability of a certain class of vehicle ...

The best answer I can give is talk to someone in person who is very well versed in truck capacities and has practical experince.

Well clearly that wouldn't be you :W ... GVW is the loaded weight of any given vehicle, whether a car, truck, trailer, etc, and will vary according to whatever may be loaded into the "vehicle" at any given time. GVWR is the weight rating assigned to that vehicle by the manufacturer ... GVW under no circumstances should ever exceed GVWR.

Good grief. :S

Good grief is right. While you may be generally correct, in this case you are not. The 10K is assigned as the maximum by our USA govt for that class of truck. The 10K was determined a long time ago and only recently trucks have caught up to (and passed) it. Back in 2010 when I bought my F250 a 9200 GVWR was standard. Improvements have raised trucks capabilities and they have now exceeded the 10K mark, but they must be marked as 10K because that is the maximum that they can be according to the govt. There is not one thing on that truck that limits it to 10K except an outdated govt rule. Maybe being from Canada you don't understand this, but that is the way it is. We don't know what the real capability actually is though since the govt forces a 10K maximum on the sticker and won't allow the real number to be printed.