Good to go?

Groover wrote:
I too was shocked at the low rated cargo capacity. I had a '91 F250 that as I recall had a curb weight of 5600lbs and a gross weight of 8800lbs giving it a cargo capacity of 3200lbs. It was gas and 2wd though. I special ordered it to haul a slide in camper and wanted maximum carrying capacity. I ended up with a bigger camper than I had intended and hauled around 4000lbs on a routine basis. Other than being top heavy it did fine. 4000lbs did not quite engage the last stage of the special order factory booster springs. It was shocking how much that truck flexed when compared with the new ones. My 2016 F150 4wd has a much more rigid frame, weighs the same, 50% more hp and bigger brakes but a GVWR of only 7200lbs.

postmandug wrote:
Took my truck (2012 F250 Diesel) to a CAT scale today to get a true 'empty' weight.
Full fuel and DEF, no driver, no cargo

Gross Weight 7780 lbs
Steer Axle 4700 lbs
Drive Axle 3080 lbs

Door sticker on truck:
GVWR 10,000lbs
Front GAWR 5200 lbs
Rear GAWR 6100 lbs

So I can assume I have 2220 lbs available for me, the wife, all the coolers of beer, firewood, WD hitch and tongue weight from the trailer, correct?

Have not weighed the trailer fully loaded yet nor do I have the actual tongue weight. Dry weight from factory is 3876 or so.
Yes I know I have way too much truck for my trailer, but that's exactly what I wanted when looking at TW and TTs.

Just bought the truck in September and the TT in October. Due to weather and medical issues we have not had the trailer out yet, but dammit we're ready for it to warm up so we can!!!!

Thoughts?

rhagfo wrote:

kw/00 wrote:
I got 2220 when subtracting 7780 from 10000, but the yellow sticker on the door will tell u anyway what your payload is according to the manufacturer, so I'm curios if it's different from what you got. Yes you are correct about what the payload number means. The trailer is really light for the truck, even a mid sized truck could have pulled that, but you have the option of going larger one day if your inclined to do so. Anyway enjoy camping!!!

The "YELLOW" Payload sticker is only good for comparing payloads on the dealers lot! Once the TV is off the lot and in the owners hands that is no longer valid!!
Side steps, tool boxes, extra fuel tanks, family size, and STUFF all affect real payload available.

The OP almost did it correctly, should have had TV loaded with DW and any family or pets with then when scaled. In this case really doesn't matter too much as that is plenty of TV for that trailer.

harmanrk wrote:

kw/00 wrote:
I got 2220 when subtracting 7780 from 10000, but the yellow sticker on the door will tell u anyway what your payload is according to the manufacturer, so I'm curios if it's different from what you got.

I would expect the yellow sticker to be slightly higher, as is it the weight of the truck as it left the factory subtracted form 10000. Its safe to assume that over the course of 6 years, the truck has picked up a bit of 'base weight', bed liner, cover, accessories, gunk in the glove box, console, under the seats, it all come off that yellow sticker number to lead to that 2220 today.

kw/00 wrote:
I got 2220 when subtracting 7780 from 10000, but the yellow sticker on the door will tell u anyway what your payload is according to the manufacturer, so I'm curios if it's different from what you got. Yes you are correct about what the payload number means. The trailer is really light for the truck, even a mid sized truck could have pulled that, but you have the option of going larger one day if your inclined to do so. Anyway enjoy camping!!!

kw/00 wrote:
I got 2220 when subtracting 7780 from 10000, but the yellow sticker on the door will tell u anyway what your payload is according to the manufacturer, so I'm curios if it's different from what you got.