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Tarkin75
Explorer
Jun 20, 2013

Towing capacity, payload, etc... not the same old thread:)

I haven't seen a thread discussing this, but admittedly only done a fairly basic search. Hopefully this isn't too big a can of worms like the other thread, but, how does towing and payload come in...
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wnjj
Explorer II
Jun 21, 2013
Tarkin75 wrote:
IE if you have a truck with a 2k payload, and say 7k towing capacity, should you be deducting 2k from the 7k when thinking about towing a boat, and meaning you can only tow a 5k vehicle?


This part is the right answer because of the definition of GCWR, which is the total of truck (including payload) + trailer.

This also assumes the spec'd towing capacity is computed from (GCWR - truck curb weight) which as sch911 suggests may not be the case.

Confused even more now? :)

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