New Truck Campers
Hi everyone! My wife and I have decided to sell our travel trailer and buy a truck camper. We have been RVing for a while now and want to be able to pull a boat while camping. I've got a couple of...
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norcal10 wrote:donn0128 wrote:
You have a 1992 Ram 5.9? That truck has as I remember a 8800 GVWR. What does it scale loaded ready to go? 5000 pounds if you actually did have 3700 pound payload. Sadly its more likely your real world payload will be around 1500 pounds.
Thanks for the info. I haven't had a chance to scale it yet. The sticker on the door has an 8510 GVW. I did the calculation by doing the GVW - curb weight to come up with 3710.
You will get a lot of thoughts on how much weight your truck can handle from many different forum members here. One school of thought is never to exceed your GVWR while others are in the camp that doing proper upgrades and not exceeding your axle ratings is fine.
One thing to consider is that curb weight may not include a full tank of fuel or two humans. You could have 300+ lbs of fuel or more and two humans can add another 350+ lbs easy and that is before you loaded the camper.
