mountainkowboy wrote:
That being said we had a 97 F350 dump truck at work. GVWR was 12,500lbs, it weighed 13,200lbs empty and we regularly would put another 4,000 to 6,000 in the bed. It never broke down and nothing was bent and was still being used when I retired in 2011 with over 200K miles on it.
They are much stronger than you think.
Was it door sticker that said GVWR at 12,500 ?
I had 1999 F450 flatbed, who originally was registered at 9000lb weight, what whas truck weight.
It took till about 2008 when I got pulled over by DOT officer, while having backhoe on the truck and officer read the label saying
VW at 9000 lb
GVW at 15,000lb
That was the time he gave me fix-it ticket who send to DMV to pay for the 15k weight sticker.