It has been a while since I read this thread. Glad to see it is a "sticky" or whatever you want to call it. To me it is "same old s#@^ different day". For pupeperson, if you go to the Goodyear site and look for the pdf file labeled loadinflation, you will find out that the load rating of the tire as indicated on the tire is not a real limit. You can increase that load limit by increasing pressure and decreasing speed. Wheels need to be good for the increase in pressure.
For all of those folks that want the OEM ratings to be law, how about going out and loading your pickup truck (that is the class of truck we are dealing with, right?) to a weight significantly over the door sticker. Then, go find a Law Enforcement Officer or any other person with the legal right to write citations of illegal activity and have them weigh your vehicle and or vehicle and trailer and see if they will give you a ticket for being over OEM ratings. Then scan that ticket and post it here. If you are ticketed for being over OEM, nothing else such as over what you are licensed for, just tell the judge that you were doing a public service to prove to all that the door sticker is a law, as far as the ratings are concerned.
Get ticketed. That will shut us up.
