10,000 lb Vehicle weight and the law
In looking through the Washington and municipal laws regarding whether or not truck campers are RV's I noticed the laws are rife with definitions involving 10,000 lb vehicle weight (with an occasiona...
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805gregg wrote:
It's funny, when I bought my 2003 SRW Quad cab Dodge 3500 the brochure states that my truck has a payload of 4660, but when I got the truck it has a 9900 lb combined gross weight rating, but the truck weighs 7700 lb so my door sticker payload is 2200 lbs. I have a 2003 Lance 1071 on it and the CGW is 11,800 lbs and it handles it just fine, like it isn't there, so I have a 4660 lb payload after all
The crazy high advertised payload in the brochure is for a stripped, regular cab, 2wd truck. Add your Quad Cab, options, 4wd, blah blah and it eats into the payload pretty quickly.
