Ram 1500 owners (current gen) come on in!

Sportsmen wrote:

bikendan wrote:

Sportsmen wrote:
Current F150s have a higher payload than some of their competition because of the aluminum bodies. They lightened up the trucks with the aluminum by 600 lbs or so which directly related to the higher payloads. An often overlooked advantage to lightening up the trucks.

NOT true. Previous years F150 models, without the aluminum, still had better payloads than the competition. I know beci spent 2 years shopping all the 1/2 ton brands. My 2014 F150 Ecoboost SCREW with Max Tow package but not the HD Payload package, has a payload of 1828lbs.
I never saw a used crew cab 1/2 ton from any other brand with that kind of payload.

payloads on the 2018 F150s are well over 2000 lbs... Lighter truck = higher payloads

https://www.ford.com/trucks/f150/models/f150-xlt/

Something I unscientifically did was to go to a Ford dealer and look at the sum of several F150’s axle ratings and compare to the vehicles GVWR. On the Max Tow versions I looked at there was very little if any margin between the sum of the axles and the GVWR...

I did the same test on Ram 1500’s with 5.7 Hemis and found that there was significant margin between the sum of the axle ratings and the GVWR... I’ve lost the numbers but it was like 800-1000 lbs.

Seems to me that Ford taps into the sum of the Axle ratings to feel comfortable increasing the GVWR compared to other half tons.

In other words...

If you load a Max Tow F150..pardon the pun... to the max you will have nearly zero axle rating left over.

If you load a Ram 1500 to the max payload rating you will likely see some significant margin left over on the axle ratings.

I have not done this test with the new aluminum bodied F150... but I need to.

Current owners... can you post your Axle ratings, GVWR, and payload rating?

Thanks!

Jeremiah