Must Have Been A Beer or 12 Involved

twodownzero wrote:
3/4 ton trucks from that era often had semi floating rear axles, just like 1/2 tons. They had bigger axle shafts, tubes, and wheel bearings, but they were nothing but glorified 1/2 tons.

Those of you who advocate completely ignoring door stickers and deliberately overloading trucks far beyond what the people who designed the trucks intended them to carry are reckless, not "free thinkers" who refuse to surrender your liberty to "attorneys literature." Those who support this kind of recklessness are just creating ammo for the future nanny-staters who will, one day, successfully lobby government for severe restrictions on RVs and their drivers--of all kinds--who have for decades lived in a gray area of the law because the use is non-commercial. Openly discussing this sort of dangerous activity and admitting that you're doing it deliberately under the guise of some kind of "personal responsibility" calculus just makes it worse.

My only hope is that the manufacturers continue to build stronger trucks that are rated for more weight. Then, perhaps, the vehicles we use to carry and tow our RVs will have sufficient capacity that people will not be tempted to think this way.

The engineering factors in these vehicles are there for a reason. It isn't an attorney who decides how big the engineering factor must be--it's a professional engineer.

No body is speaking of actually doing this ( in this day and age of nanny save me from myself)... Just speaking of the idea of doing this back in the day without the " realization of consequences". OR the realization that in most situations, no one was really in the Arm of harm anyways. But hey let us bask in the rays of " we are much better off now, the back then" mentality.