Newbie here...

mkirsch wrote:
To be fair, the ones running F-350 duallys @ 1000lbs over are a lot less overweight as a % of their payload capacity than a Tundra @ 1000lbs over.

A typical F-350 has 4000-6000lbs of payload capacity. Being 1000lbs overweight is 16-25% overloaded.

A typical Tundra has 1200-1500lbs of payload capacity. Being 1000lbs overweight is 66%-83% overloaded.

Just put the 1000lbs into each empty truck and tell me it's the same. The F-350 will squat a fraction of an inch. The Tundra will squat 3-4 inches.

Sort of like a South Korean Ferry. When operated within reasonable situations and reasonable experienced persons, it won't tip over or push your steering in a corner? I wonder how many times that Ferry operated port to port without ever having issues with it being 66%-83% beyond it's recommended allowances?

While I am greatly within my recommended allowances, it is still a heavy and top heavy vehicle with a truck camper on it, combination. While traveling a dark Wyoming mountain highway, that I have traveled on hundreds of times previously, for whatever reason I just lost track of where I was and what I was doing. Call it driving while inattentive. But suddenly I was into the curve at a greater speed than I should have been. Threshold braking is/was the right response and this is what I did. But, with this type of load I knew I could not cut as quickly as I could in a car, or Ferry, but I did feel the suspension loading and unloading, known as tipping to the outside of the curve. Luckily I have had many years of high speed driving and instructing and let my reflexes react, before my brain could ever engage. But for the remaining drive to camp, I never stop thinking in how lucky I had been, this time. Imagine the circumstances I would have been if I had a load greatly exceeding my suspension and frame capabilities. The load on my rear axle alone is approx. 15,000# and I drive accordingly and remain within my truck’s design specifications.

These are the circumstances why some of us become card carrying "Weight Police" due to we are traveling the very same roads and highways of individuals that sometimes don't make the decisions I would have made under the same circumstances. We all have times where we settle with the choices we make in life. This is whether it is a house, spouse or dog. But settling with the fact you have a truck already and shoehorn a camper to fit it, is why I made a career of picking up the pieces caused by people making poor choices, in irrecoverable situations.

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