Finally made it to the Cat scales
Getting the truck right took longer because of the Covid related supply issues but I did this to simulate a full camper.... I had a full black and grey tank. Fresh was almost empty. Stocked the k...
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mkirsch wrote:
I wouldn't lose sleep over a couple hundred pounds myself.
How new are the tires? How much camping are you planning on doing? I wouldn't worry much about the tires in the near term if they're fairly new. I'd plan on replacing the tires sooner rather than later especially if you plan on doing a lot of overloaded driving.
burningman wrote:
I’m perfectly comfortable ignoring pickup truck weight “ratings” as most are entirely artificial numbers.
But you won’t catch me running at or over a tire’s rating. Those are real numbers.
I spent most of my working life in trucks. And in that time I have paid thousands of dollars in overload fines. I had 1 Local write me and my drivers a bunch of tickets because our gross weight was about 30,000 pounds (yes, 15 tons) over the GCVWR on the ID plate. All dismissed in court.
But the load rating on tires is checked closely and enforced on CMVs
Now no law enforcement is likely to look at the ratings on your RV tires, but there must be a reason they worry so much about it on trucks.
