Tire Ratings
There is no doubt about it. Truck campers are heavy and most of us are probably close to the load capacity of our trucks. When it comes to load capacity, the limiting factor is often the tires. I k...
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Bedlam wrote:
.....If you are close to your tire limits, will you be weighing your load each time you go out or not varying what you will take with you? .......
This is the sort of thinking I would like to resolve. If you have a load which keeps each of your tires a hundred pounds or so under the rating, then I guess you are in a safe weight range. If you up the load and go a 100 pounds over, I would think that would have virtually no change in the safety of your tires. Wear, speed, temperature, road material and road condition would have much, much bigger effects. At least that is my guess. I know I am close to the load rating for my rear tires. To my thinking, nothing changes if I am a bit under the rating or a bit above.
