F450 vs F350 SRW payload

Grit dog wrote:

4x4ord wrote:

Bedlam wrote:
If you need more payload than the 14K lbs GVWR will offer in a F450 pickup, you can go to the F450 chassis cab with 16.5k lbs, F550 with 19.5k lbs or new F600 with with even more. The weight was chosen for classification reasons.

BTW: Ram does not make a 4500 pickup, only the chassis cab.

So why is a F450 chassis cab not following the same 4500 classification numbers that you're saying the F450 pick up is subject to? Is the F550 the same truck as the F450 just different numbers? I would expect the F550 can haul more because it is designed to haul more. If I'm buying a truck I could care less what classification it is. I want to know it is designed to carry or tow a certain weight depending on what I have in mind for the truck. There may be the odd person who wants an F450 to haul their ego around with and for that buyer the payload number may be irrelevant but most of us want to know what our trucks are actually designed to haul.

Because a c&c is not the same as a pickup. Different frame to fit the truck bed pretty sure.
Otherwise, a 450 pickup is more capable than a 350 dually.
Bedlam explains it rather well.
You have to look past the 14k rating to see it though

So you're saying the frame of the F450 pick up is what is limiting the GVWR .... otherwise is would be similar to the f450 chassis cab? Ok, maybe, I would guess it to be limited by suspension but regardless the point is that the GVWR of the F450 pick up is what it is by design. Ford doesn't build their F450, stick a 14000 lb GVWR door post sticker on it and publish all their advertising literature as though it has a GVWR of 14000 lbs but secretly expect all their buyers to know that if they want the true capacity of the F450 they have to go on the truck forums to find out what it is.