Huge discrepancies

spoon059 wrote:

LarryJM wrote:
While it's true that the brakes are tested to FMVSS safety standards at the GVWR, but you have to remember that in fairly hard braking there is a LOT OF EXTRA braking naturally performed by the TV especially on the front axle of the TV. This becomes important and even critical in down hill braking where heat and brake fade can become a factor. I also content, but can't prove that there is just no way that the normal electric brakes on a TT provide the level of braking that the power assisted and now days disk brakes provide on modern TVs. This is why I sort of cringe when I see a 7K GVWR towing a 9K TT.

Larry

My theoretical Tundra with a GCWR of 16,000 lbs makes you cringe, but most people on here wouldn't bat an eye to a F350 dually (gas engine) with a GCWR of 22,500... Neither truck can rely on diesel exhaust braking.

I have never had a single problem towing with my Tundra. When I come to the top of the hill I don't carry more speed than I need to. I use the transmission to hold my RPMs and provide additional slowing. A bigger truck doesn't inherently make it safer. There are plenty of idiots driving a one ton dually that drive way too fast for conditions.

You can cringe all that you want with my half ton towing. The half ton truck is held to the same exact federal standards as your 1 ton van. You seem to trust the capability of your truck and weight based upon the federal standard testing... why is the half ton incapable of handling the weights that the same test showed it can handle?

Sorry, but I think you are fooling yourself if you believe your say 7K GVWR truck can stop 16K as well as my 9.5K GVWR Van can stop the same 16K. There are no testing done for brakes based on a vehicles GCWR only its GVWR and there are no FMVSS standards for brakes on towed vehicles like there are for TVs.

Larry