How much weight is too much weight?
I am looking at campers and thinking of a 9.5 foot. They weigh about 2500 lbs and I have a 2500 dodge. I was looking on another site and there were people with 11 foot lance campers that weigh 3300 lb...
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People frequently refer to the truck manufactures using the engineers data when they make claims on truck capacities. Typically, people post something like; "The engineers provide the info to sales, therefore it is correct." Not much consideration given to the details of the engineering. The truck manufacture and truck engineers are absolutely correct.
People frequently state the TC engineers design the TCs, therefore absolutely correct. However, when it comes to the weight of the TCs, the engineers do not know what they are talking about.
Sometimes I get confused. Are the truck engineers much more qualified or truthful than the TC engineers? Personally, I see many contradictions in both. More importantly, I am of the belief the truck and TC manufactures provide data based more on marketing.
If the truck door sticker is absolutely true, then so is the TC sticker. If I am to believe, and take literally the stickers on my door post and my TC, with the 500 pounds of additional gear, I am not overloaded. My door sticker says my GVWR is 8800 pounds. The sticker on my TC says 1900 pounds. My truck weight (per scale) is 6200. That is a total truck/TC weight of 8100 pounds. That leaves me with 700 pounds left for camping equipment.
I should point out, my truck is a 2WD, and the TC has no basement, slide or built in generator. It also has only a 22 gallon water tank.
People frequently state the TC engineers design the TCs, therefore absolutely correct. However, when it comes to the weight of the TCs, the engineers do not know what they are talking about.
Sometimes I get confused. Are the truck engineers much more qualified or truthful than the TC engineers? Personally, I see many contradictions in both. More importantly, I am of the belief the truck and TC manufactures provide data based more on marketing.
If the truck door sticker is absolutely true, then so is the TC sticker. If I am to believe, and take literally the stickers on my door post and my TC, with the 500 pounds of additional gear, I am not overloaded. My door sticker says my GVWR is 8800 pounds. The sticker on my TC says 1900 pounds. My truck weight (per scale) is 6200. That is a total truck/TC weight of 8100 pounds. That leaves me with 700 pounds left for camping equipment.
I should point out, my truck is a 2WD, and the TC has no basement, slide or built in generator. It also has only a 22 gallon water tank.
