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memtb
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Feb 24, 2019

Greatest Weight You’ve Ever Towed

Just for fun......which “NO” criticism from those that have never had any violation of any law! Give truck year/make/model......Whether it was farm equipment, an emergency tow for just a short distance, move a trailer for a friend, or something you’ve done as a normal (for you) towing ! If you towed doubles, give total weight of both towed units.

I suspect that most of us towed a bit over the listed weights for the tow vehicle,especially if you started towing in the ‘70’s or ‘80’s.....when we had less knowledge of towing limits and before the internet created the “Weight Police”!

AGAIN.......”No Bashing”, as everyone “now” knows and understands the “yellow sticker”!

I’ll lead off....’96 Frieghtliner FLD 120, pulling a “pup”, grossed-out @ 111,000 lbs
‘97 Dodge Ram 2500, 5.9 Cummins pulling doubles, grossed-out @
23660 (approximately)

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  • When I was younger I pulled a wagon filled with some bricks from the backyard to the front. Never weighed it tho...:)......Dennis
  • 300 gallons of fuel,150 gallons water, trailer and all my junk scales at 62,500#
  • 78 Chev 3/4 ton

    Did a dump run after stripping an entire house of stucco. Piled it high in the bed between my tool boxes and rack.

    I had 3 1/3 tons in the bed of the truck. 6,680 pounds. More than the weight of the empty truck, plus my rack and boxes without the ladders on top added about 1500 pounds.

    So that was a total of about 8,180 pounds in the bed of a 3/4 ton truck.
    Back end was right down on the snubbers, front end was gazing at the sky. Steering was a tad light too.... If I knew where the picture was, I'd post it here!

    Brakes took some effort to hold it back.

    Made the mistake of coasting down a hill at the dump in tree climbing first gear and then letting the clutch out to slow it down. Clutch must have hit about 15 grand before coming apart....
  • I was incorrect on my ‘97 Ram weight quote, I only gave the trailer weights......forgot to add the truck. So, I guess we grossed-out @ somewhere around 31,000 pounds.
  • Pulled 140,000 lbs with 7 axle set of trains with loads of lumber out of the north. Now pull 20,000 on a gooseneck with an fl60 frieghtliner toy truck. Pull my 12,000 lb fiver on the weekends with gmc 2500 Duramax.
  • Most overweight was with a '79 Chevy half ton. Put a yard of wet topsoil in the bed. Brakes barely stopped it, and broke a leaf, but it got where it was going. Most weight was with a dump-bed dually pulling a 30+ foot gooseneck trailer stacked high with hardwood planks from a sawmill. Don't know if it was overweight, but the 454 big block had to work hard that day.
  • 1980 "R" Model, 1 stack Mack.. grossed at 118,000... loaded a "double" load of floor plates down the pier...

    loaded the skids side by side so I did not stack them over the headboard . .

    Boy, I loved that truck... She would pull a house if I wanted her to...
  • About 200,000 # I was the rear tractor in a dual rig moving oil rig equipment. actually I was pushing not towing.:)
  • 2015 DRW RAM AISIN 4.10's towing 39TKSB3 Mobile Suites at 23,000# also two MC's on Trailer 2,000#.

    First weight slip without MC Trailer.