Apex or Venture (Sporttrek) TT

Deuce222 wrote:
So it sounds like my next step is to gas up my truck alone, with me in it and what I might think I possibly would be hauling in the truck when hitched up to trailer, and weigh each axle as well as whole truck on a scale?

You could, but I simply weigh the truck with a full tank of gas and nothing else in it, then after I get the scale slip subtract my weight from it, my goal being to get my particular truck's curb weight as it sits there ready to be hitched to a trailer. When I then subtract that scale reading from it's GVWR I know what it's actual, real world payload capacity is, reflecting any changes I may have made to the truck such as a bed liner and tonneau cover. I do mine whenever I take a load of junk to the waste transfer station so it's difficult to get individual axle weights but any reading would change later depending on what I put in the truck and where, also including passengers. In my case I plug those numbers into a trailer towing calculator but it doesn't do anything one can't do manually with a calculator by just punching the numbers in. There's no magic to this, either you're within the truck's payload capacity or you're not ... up to ~ 6000 lbs loaded & ready to camp most 1/2 tons are fine but once you start pushing beyond that you'll find more & more of them running out of payload capacity because the trailer's gross tongue weight (~ 800 lbs for a 6000 lb trailer) starts chewing up so much of that capacity, in which case you're increasingly sure to exceed the truck's GRAWR (Gross Rear Axle Weight Rating). It's just a fact of life with most 1/2 tons but one that many find difficult to accept. ;)