1/2 ton trucks?

Sport45 wrote:

Dannyabear1 wrote:
OK here is easy way to tell what you have

6 lugs or less =grocery getter, soccermom mobile
7 lugs = trying hard to be a real truck
8 lugs or more = real truck

Now that's funny!





Maybe modern wheel lugs are weaker and that's why we need so many...

I would agree, my 92 Navistar class 6 rig has 6 lugs also! I can put my old dually 3500 loaded in the back, and be at gvwr with some 3000 lbs of room to go!

As noted, DOT class 3 rigs, ie 1/2, 3/4, 1 ton up to 13500 gvwr are LIGHT DUTY trucks. From class 4 to 7, 13501 to 33000 lbs are medium duty. over 33K lbs gvwr is a heavy duty class 8. Now if you want to discuss the Australian version of the above, IIRC light duty is up to around 25K, medium up to about 70-80K, heavy up to 120K, and superduty/train style is in the 120-200K lb total gvw of the rig.

So where does that put us NOW?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Oh by the way, per my license here in Wa st, my 2000 C2500 is good to 8K total gvw, my 2 sons ea have a GM 1500, the other a Toyota Tacoma, they too have 8K plates, are legal to 8K gvwr, as is myself, even tho the door sticker on my rig says 8600, I only get the 8K. So door badging many times means squat in the legal scence. We would not want to talk legal speak would we?!?!?!?!?????

Marty