If what you weighed is including the extras! you have your base tare wt of the truck. Not I am using tare, not curb. Curb to me is what it weighed coming out of the factory, tare is how it sits at that point in time with other goodies, people etc. Tare can be a moving amount if you will. You now know about what you can load into and on the truck before overloaded at gvwr.
The other gvw to worry about, not sure how your state registers truck. My state requires ALL people with a truck to buy tonage to drive down the road. This is sold in 2000 lb increments. I am LEGAL to the amount paid! My 2000 C200 as an example, has an 8K registration. I am legal to 8K, not the 8600 on the door sticker. On the other hand, my 05 dually has a 14K plate, and my 11400 door sticker is not the max I can go to. So while you have door sticker ability, you may or may not from a legal standpoint.
Also, just because like in the case of my dually, you can buy a 12 or 14K plate, you may not want to literally go to the paid for amount! but if you want to go tot he door sticker amount, like in both of my trucks, one has to buy the next ton higher than the door sticker. Which on one hand, means if you do go over the door sticker amount on accident, not a big deal, you will not get an overwt ticket.
Then your MTW you can tow, will also be a moving target. If you have no payload after people etc, while you have gcwr per the manufacture and trailer wt ability, you in reality have NO trailer tow ability, unless you can figure out how to tow a trailer with no hitch wt. If you have 100 lbs of payload, you have a max trailer of 1000 lbs with 10%, and 400 lb with 25% hw. again, the wt you can tow is a moving target. Clear as mud eh!
Marty
