You know, you have a good point. And like you I tend to side with the OP if possible and he/she can keep the "rig" legal (meaning axle and tire ratings, period. Don't give a******about GVWR, Payload, nor GCWR). However, in the case of the earlier OP, that we both responded too, there was no way to keep that combination legal much less safe
The problem isn't the OP (especially Newbies) nor this forum's members generally but a salesman somewhere got a newbie or uneducated individual into a bad situation that can't be corrected. The salesman that sold that trailer to the earlier OP should be put in jail for that little stunt
As to your example from previous years. You weren't that bad. Those trucks could deal with that until the transmissions failed, as you found out. This was also the time frame before truck manufactures started raising published tow ratings without actually doing anything significant to the trucks suspensions. The numbers back then were a lot more realistic. How do you think we got into this situation where it is practically impossible to pull a TT/FW at the manufactures tow rating because in reality it overloads the truck
