I've UNDERweight!!

twodownzero wrote:

dakonthemountain wrote:

twodownzero wrote:
What is GVAR? And what is your GVWR?

GVAR is Gross vehicle axle rating and it's 11,300 on my truck

GVWR is Gross vehicle weight rating, and standard for a 1996 3500 Chevy dually like mine is 10,000lbs, which would normally bring me 720lbs OVER my GVWR. However, I'm the second owner of my truck and it apparently was a special order. It has some sort of factory commercial add ons with bigger brakes, a thicker sway bar and an additional leaf spring, with a sticker that says the new GVWR from the factory is 10,800lbs. I'm no expert, but I do know from my research and my 28 years of RV/truck experience that it's the axles, brakes and shocks that mostly still make the difference in safety. So with the factory add ons it's still 80lbs under the listed GVWR. The weights I reported in my original post are referring to the Gross axle ratings though...

Hope this helps. Like I said. I'm happy.

Dak

So there's no such thing as GVAR, you just made it up. You're right at GVWR, which will be safe indefinitely. Great job!

For reference, my 4 door, 1 ton, 4wd, diesel, manual truck weighs ~7200 empty. Being lighter empty definitely helps; it took the manufacturers forever to realize that the increase in weight of the empty trucks killed the payload pretty good.

Kinda harsh man...! No I didn't make it up, I wrote the wrong letters....though I referred to it correctly in my post. So shoot me. You ever make a mistake?.. It should be GAWR... Gross Axle Weight Rating, as jimh425 wrote... and it IS a real thing and an important calculation in the mix. Geesh!

Dak