Bumpyroad wrote:
no need to beef up to GvWR unless you plan on actually loading it up to that. see what loaded/wet weight is and allow for some extra stuff.
Where do you get the wet weight from?
I suppose you will say, "Take it to a scale."
How many times does this have to be repeated before the "weight police" get it:
You can't know what something weighs BEFORE you buy it! RV dealers won't let you take trailers on "test tows" to have them weighed. Truck dealers will not let you take trucks to test tow trailers to the scale.
All the manufacturers provide is dry weight and GVWR. Dry weight is a joke. Anything you come up with on your own is a blind guess.
The only real weight value you have is GVWR, which is the "worst case" scenario.
You might overbuy on the truck but at least you didn't make a "$65,000 mistake."