mkirsch wrote:
F450, because you're hauling a camper and nobody's going to bother you even if you are "illegal." It will definitely handle the load better.
Really, you run into the same problem with F250's as you do with F450's: In order to keep them in a certain licensing class, the manufacturer has to rate them with an artificially low GVWR.
To keep the F250 as a "Class 2(B)" truck the GVWR limit is 10,000lbs.
To keep the F450 as a "Class 3" truck the GVWR limit is 14,000lbs.
Years ago manufacturers were nowhere near the class limits and the trucks had plenty of payload. As the trucks got fatter, they could keep jacking the GVWR numbers. Now they've hit the class limits, but the trucks keep getting fatter, so now payload numbers are getting squeezed.
It's not that the truck is "unsafe" if loaded over the GVWR. The problem is in LICENSING the truck for commercial purposes. Raising the GVWRs puts the trucks in a different, more expensive weight class so the manufacturers are understandably hesitant to do that.
^This. But explaining it to some is like trying to explain Algebra to a 5 year old.
Or in one sentence. Nothing has changed. 450 is still has more available capacity than the 350, but the 350 is jsut fine too!
