Are You Buying All These Half-ton Claims?

majorgator wrote:

RinconVTR wrote:

To think you are safer than anyone else just because you're under OEM ratings makes you naïve and a bigger safety risk than others who understand there is much more to towing than weights and ratings.

I would argue that this is a very foolish statement. Sounds like the common ideology of the gun control group. How is someone choosing to use a larger, more capable TV a bigger safety risk?

A bigger safety risk in regards to "burying YOUR head in the sand" and generalized thinking that simply buying a bigger truck makes you more safe because now your using less of available payload and tow ratings. This is naïve thinking to the extreme.

I watched a newer F-150 truck loose an empty 3 or 4 place aluminum trailer on the opposite side of the Interstate this summer. (the only trailer accident I ever witnessed). Had it crossed over vs veering away, it was timed perfectly to collide with us. Traffic was heavy at the time, imagine what could have happen.

SO....following your line of thinking... if that driver had a F-250 or F-350, this never would have happened. His 1/2 ton truck was obviously too small to tow that empty ATV trailer, and that's why he forgot to couple the ball and likely forgot to hook up the chains too.

brulaz wrote:

So I am risking the safety of my family by loading my truck up close to it's GVWR of 7500. But not if I load it to 6500# (half the payload).

Do you also travel at half the speed limit?

What nonsense and fear-mongering.

I completely agree.