How rigid is payload number

BurbMan wrote:

blt2ski wrote:
Insurance company died alive driver, he at the end received his stunt fees from dead mans family and insurance company. As head was legal per state and federal laws.

You must autocorrect on that phone....LOL

thanks Don,

Think I would have learned after one or two of these on the phone.......Lolol is correct.

Marty

TheGreatWaz00 wrote:
OK the Mrs and I have chosen a TT, Rockwood 8311SS. It is within my tow limit, the question I have is the payload number. How critical is it to be below your payload number?

I have a Ram 1500, with a payload rating of 1266. I have 800# of passenger and gasoline. The Hitch weight is 746 for the TT so I would have a payload of 1546 - basically 300# over the rated 1266 number.

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Your on the low end of half tons..A quick look shows that trailer as:

Unit Specifications
Shipping Weight 7,180 lbs
Carrying Capacity 1,470 lbs
Hitch 646 lbs
Length 34' 9''
Height 9' 10''
Fresh Water 44 gal
Waste Water 38 gal
Grey Water 38 gal

If you decide to run with it, at the very least upgrade your tires and add something like Helwig overloads or similar.It does not change the payload but it is an upgrade for heavy hauling..

Good luck with your choice.

blt2ski wrote:
Insurance company died alive driver, he at the end received his stunt fees from dead mans family and insurance company. As head was legal per state and federal laws.

You must autocorrect on that phone....LOL

I guess being a little over your weight limits is like being a little pregnant.

Over is over.

Even if you literally kill someone by being over a rating, does not mean you will lose a case. This has happened to one person on this forum. His attny found numerous legal references to show manufactures numbers, over for one, are not legal terms.

At the end of this trial, reality was, the dead person pulled out in front of the pickup and trailer loaded to 30k, 10k truck, 20k trailer. Insurance company died alive driver, he at the end received his stunt fees from dead mans family and insurance company. As head was legal per state and federal laws. But the dead man was at fault helped a bit too.

Marty

Kaydeejay

No the article did not cover max cargo sufficiently. My F-150 is rated to tow 9000 lbs.+. My TT weights 6000 lbs. loaded, well within the towing weight.

However, I can easily exceed the 1400 lb. Max cargo on the TV just by moving stuff from the TT to the bed of the TV.

Good luck trying to prove "improper load balance" with a towing load a third below the designed towing limit.

Then there are those that get addicted to the forums and post the same question in a dozen different ways because they like all the responses.

hawkeye-08 wrote:
If someone wants some help checking their numbers, glad to jump in. If someone wants permission to exceed the limits of their equipment, then I am not interested.

Take some personal responsibility and make your own decision and be accountable for it. You are responsible for the consequences and risk, not an internet forum.

Well stated.

Even better is when people ask opinions and don't like the responses, then state they are going to do it anyway since a brother of a friend's neighbor towed 18,000 lbs with a Ford Ranger once so it is clearly safe.

If someone wants some help checking their numbers, glad to jump in. If someone wants permission to exceed the limits of their equipment, then I am not interested.

Take some personal responsibility and make your own decision and be accountable for it. You are responsible for the consequences and risk, not an internet forum.

I'm always suspicious when a controversial question is posted here and then the OP never replies.

Just sayin'...