determining pay load capacity

MFL wrote:
Janice...that payload seems way low for a 2015 F350 gas truck!! You may have one of those 350s with a 10K GVWR, which can be ordered for licensing and registration etc.

Jerry

our door sticker does say GVWR 10000 lbs. What does it mean when you say, "you may have one of those 350s with a 10k GVWR, which can be ordered for licensing and registration etc." We bought this truck used.

Thank you
Janice

Janice...that payload seems way low for a 2015 F350 gas truck!! You may have one of those 350s with a 10K GVWR, which can be ordered for licensing and registration etc.

To tow a FW, most all the pin wt will be on the rear axle, and rear tires. So the numbers you need to look to are the RAWR, and max tire rating on sidewall. You should be able to carry/tow about any size FW that your 6.2 engine will pull. If you have 3.73 gearing about 12,000 lb FW. If you have 4.30 gears about 15,000.

You don't say if you have the factory FW prep pkg. If so the B&W 3300 for it is only about 150 lbs.

If looking at FWs weighing 10k, or less, your truck will handle that with room to spare!

Jerry

The real payload capacity left over for a fifth wheel can only truly be determined one way: fill the truck up, load up all your passengers, pets, etc., and weigh the truck at the nearest CAT scale. Subtract that number - plus another 150 lbs. for a fifth wheel hitch - from the GVWR number on the truck's door sticker. That's the maximum pin weight for a fifth wheel. In addition, pay no attention to the advertised pin weights on the fifth wheels - those are dry/empty. Use 23% of the RV's GVWR for an estimated loaded pin weight.

Rob

Yes, 2744 is your capacity. The general rule of thumb is to look at the gross vehicle weight of the RV, not the empty weight, of the RV you are looking at and take 25% of that. That would be the pin weight that would count against your truck capacity. So a 10000 lb x .25 equals 2500 lbs. That only leaves you 244 lbs for your hitch, passenger, dog, etc. I believe 2744 already includes a full tank of gas and a 150 lb driver on a 2015 model. Most 5th wheel hitches will be in the 150lb range except for the Andersen hitch. You can read up on it. People either hate it or love it. I have always used a B&W hitch which weighs close to 200 lbs. Many folks will tell you to disregard the yellow sticker and look at the rear axle capacity and as long as you don't exceed it or the tire capacity you will be OK. 2744 lbs seems low for an F350 with a gas motor.