Has anybody validated your payload sticker?

Good stuff Marty, Thanks for sharing!

As I said before, EVERY truck I have owned from new, has been wieghed right after I got them. Be it a camper load sticker in the glove box, or since payload sticker came into being since about 2000, EVERY truck has been within 20-40 lbs, or about 2 20 lb increments on a scale, plus or minus of what it is supposed to weigh off of the factory line.

My old 05 dually, sticker said about 7300 lbs, came in at that. Another now not posting too much, also had a 05 dually, sticker said should weigh about 7100 due to it being a base model and 2wd. Mine a mid level 4wd. BertP had a full bore leather 05, his sticker was 7600 base wt, also came in at 7600.

My 2000 C2500, should not include it, but it is around 4900, sticker payload 3700, total gvwr 8600. I only have three options, as close to base as one can get. Auto trans, trailer tow pkg, and trim rings. Oh and cloth seats, but that is an N/C option vs vinyl.

My 96 CC was also with in a few lbs of sticker. My ex's 2 Astro safari vans, also with in a few lbs.......

I doubt they will be off a lot. BUT if buying used, someone has put on a hitch, spray in bedliner or other after market options, all bets are off if the full tank of fuel rig is at the sticker base wt. Like my 2000 is around 5300 sitting there with a line-x, metal pipe rack and mesh sides etc.

Marty

Marty

BenK wrote:
Agree with Jeremiah...too many posts saying the load sticker (not the GVWR/GAWR)
but the payload/cargo/etc sticker

I say it is based on the curb and no options with one 150lb driver.

Arguments on that saying it is as the truck left the factory with all of it's
options.

Only way to settle that is for someone to actually weigh it with a truck with
that sticker. Mine is older and before that type of sticker came out

My payload sticker is wrong. It's actually low. The reason is because all 2014 T&C minivans (at least that I op have seen) have the same payload sticker. From the base touring models to the loaded limited.

Thanks!

Jeremiah

Agree with Jeremiah...too many posts saying the load sticker (not the GVWR/GAWR)
but the payload/cargo/etc sticker

I say it is based on the curb and no options with one 150lb driver.

Arguments on that saying it is as the truck left the factory with all of it's
options.

Only way to settle that is for someone to actually weigh it with a truck with
that sticker. Mine is older and before that type of sticker came out

Francesca Knowles wrote:

jerem0621 wrote:
Just curious mostly.

Did you weigh your truck empty and verify the payload sticker was accurate?

Thanks!

Jeremiah

:h
Doesn't the payload sticker just state the allowable load that can be added to curb weight of the truck? Seems to me the only way one could "verify its accuracy" would be to add an exactly known weight to the truck, then compare total weight with whatever the GVWR is on the sticker. Is that what you mean?

No, what I mean is fill your empty truck up with a full tank of gas and then weigh your truck... Subtract this number from the GVWR. Does that number match the payload sticker. :)

Thanks!

Jeremiah

jerem0621 wrote:
Just curious mostly.

Did you weigh your truck empty and verify the payload sticker was accurate?

Thanks!

Jeremiah

:h
Doesn't the payload sticker just state the allowable load that can be added to curb weight of the truck? Seems to me the only way one could "verify its accuracy" would be to add an exactly known weight to the truck, then compare total weight with whatever the GVWR is on the sticker. Is that what you mean?

Just a little hyperbole. :B

No. I don't care. I have enough truck for anything I may ever need. I have no intentions of ever hauling a billion tons in my truck bed or tow 50 wheeled trailer!

Any and all of my pickups have been within 20-40 lbs of any style payload sticker in the rig. Be it only a camper load sticker like my 81 GMC long since gone, or my current 2000 Chevy pickup. This is at a dot scale on the freeway, dump, gravel quarry etc where I have been weighed at.

Marty

Old-Biscuit wrote:
Because of federal requirements established by the National Institute of Standards and Technology certified CAT scales will be accurate when weighing.

Transfer stations, graineries, gravel pits, dumps etc. scales can be close or 500 lbs off.

Use a CAT scale.
Actual scaled weight subtracted from GVWR--------actual cargo capacity/payload regardless of any sticker

I weighed my truck 'camp ready' to get actual available payload and then weighed truck/trailer every year

We had truck scales at home growing up and if you sell anything they have to be certified. The NIST says within 1/2 of the unit on the scales. Ours had 10 lb marks so it had to be within 5 lb.