New to Truck Camping
Hi! My husband and I recently decided that we wanted to skip our original plan to get a 5th wheel and instead look at truck campers. As we started looking around and exploring weights and options,...
Forum Discussion
bighatnohorse wrote:
I assume that you're looking at the tag on the door frame?
The door frame tag weight limit is based on the load capacity of the tires...
When that might happen, I have never seen it.
Door sticker is TAXABLE rating and has very loose connection to truck ratings.
For example on my dually numbers are about.
Taxable cargo 5000lb.
Combined axle ratings give me 8000lb cargo
Combined tire ratings would give me 10,000lb cargo, but I rather stay with axle limit.
But once again, front axle capacity is not usable with TC, so it all comes to rear axle rating.
