max capacity tow buffer

KD4UPL wrote:
That rule of thumb sounds like it was made up by someone who didn't want to or couldn't do the math.
Any vehicle should be fine up to it's rated limit. Sometimes this includes the frontal area of the trailer, not just the weight. Also, particularly with 1500 series vehicles it's difficult to actually tow the rated weight RV because you run out of payload before hitting the maximum tow rating.
If you're talking about heavy duty diesel vehicles that's another story. Many of them can quite safely tow well over their ratings. Professional "hot shot" truck drivers do it all the time. Also farmers and contractors often go well over the ratings. I think my '05 Duramax is rated for about 22,000 GCWR. It does quite well at 24,000. That's about the most I've ever had need to tow/ haul.

That's pretty amazing that you can tow up to you limits with a F150/1500 vehicle, but that you can magically somehow "quite safely tow well over the ratings" because you have a heavy duty diesel vehicle. So tell me, I'm sure other people would also be interested in knowing; what's the magic pill? The heavy duty badge on the side or the diesel badge that So readily transforms into something more than what the ratings say? Can I put that badge on my F150 and get that same magics spell cast on it?