Vehicle Weight

What do you have for tow mirrors on your Tundra?

Georgia Popcorn wrote:
The TUNDRA has performed above my expectations, after two tanks of fuel I am average 10.2 miles per gallon as far as the handling of the truck, it is just fine, no sway at all. I will check the rating on the tires and post back.

It might be in your OPINION "it is just fine", but you're betting MR. Murphy never pays you an unexpected visit during less than favorable towing conditions.

You're getting IMO some good feelings of concern and a wise one would be smart to not dismiss them out of hand.

Larry

The TUNDRA has performed above my expectations, after two tanks of fuel I am average 10.2 miles per gallon as far as the handling of the truck, it is just fine, no sway at all. I will check the rating on the tires and post back.

if truck is parked on scale correctly. U-tube has videos.

would have 3 weights..

Front Axle
Rear Axle
Trailer axles
and was fuel tank FULL, and everyone was in the truck.?

Safe is more important than Legal.

I can not say if you are good or not.. rear axle is the ONE to measure *mostly overloaded*

but that is a lot of trailer for that truck.. my opinion.

I have a 30 foot travel trailer @ 8,300 and pull with a F 250, 2 wheel drive GAS

Grit dog wrote:
Legal by what standard? The only people that really care are here on this site! Lol
With that in mind, either you're fine, or you're ona death mission depending who responds.
AND, does it matter if you're halfway across America on a trip? Wrong time to get concerned.

Well OP is not Half Way, more like 400 miles from home. Would not worry about GVWR, but get weighed correctly, and post rear axle weight, and your tire size and max weight rating from the sidewall. I would be more worried about exceeding the max rating of the tires at this point.

My guess at this point you are close to max rear axle/tire, but likely still under.

Legal by what standard? The only people that really care are here on this site! Lol
With that in mind, either you're fine, or you're ona death mission depending who responds.
AND, does it matter if you're halfway across America on a trip? Wrong time to get concerned.

Depends on how much weight your trucks rear axle/tires wheels are carrying. A single gross weight of 7420 lbs doesn't tell you much.
Trailer add just about all their hitch weight on a trucks rear axle.
RAWR which include tires/wheels and rear spring pack is you biggest concern. Stay under those rating for a legal safe tow.

Most 1/2 ton trucks come OEM with P tires which can have say a 2500 lb rating. Fed regs require P tires on a truck to be derated by dividing its capacity by 1.1.....= 2272 lbs.
If your pulling a 5th wheel trailer you need a LT C or D load range tires for better load carrying ability.

The truck stop scales should have been segmented in three platforms for a trucks front axle......another segment for the trucks rear axle and a 3rd segment for the trailers axles.

I agree with everything Mitch mentioned.

AFAIK, the only real legal issue here is your rear axle wt of your truck. The truck tires would have to be rated to carry whatever wt is on them.

Jerry

You have to define "legal", but it looks like you only weighed your truck on the one set of scales and the trailer on another set of scales.. There should have been 3 scales you weigh on.. You put your front axle on 1, rear axle on another and the trailer on the 3rd set..

But, if it was a semi truck scale, you might not have enough length for all of that, so.....

But, it looks to me your truck weighed in at #7400 which is more than #6900 so YOU decide.. ;)

You may or may not be over the rear axle weight rating, but my guess is you are probably over by a tad.. Again, your choice on if that's okay for you or not..

If you are good with the way it tows, then you can factor that into your choice too..

If it was me.... I would not tow that size trailer with your truck (or my truck for that matter), but that's just me and has no bearing on anything.. :)

Good luck!

Mitch