Truck sufficient for what I want?

BenK wrote:
Keith used to be management in charge of this label data base (DB)
This is very powerful position and responsibility. More so for larger
corporations, as there are many people in that food chain to
orchestrate to work together

That DB is critical to corporations...meaning MONEY both ability to
make more or cost to become a loss

Keith has stated that GM's DB and therefore the label is the basis
for shipping weights...AKA shipping cost for each vehicle

That has to be 'right', else the freight forwarder will charge more
for weighing each vehicle

So that DB must be relational to all of the various options and
'stuff' being installed on 'that' vehicle.

eluwak wrote:
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Interesting. My weights pretty closely matched the sticker on both my F150 and Pathfinder when full up. I'm surprised that GM would be so different. I thought the purpose of that sticker was to prevent overloading the vehicle, and accounted for a full tank of gas.

edit: Actually reading through the TREAD act and FMVSS No. 110 makes me believe that fuel is not considered cargo, especially in the section where it talks about propane and water considerations.

Well all that means then is that the door sticker is pretty useless since fuel weight is not unimportant.

I was only basing on what I read and past experience. My F150 should have been 200+ lbs. heavier than expected when I weighed it if this all held true, so something else is amiss here that I'm not seeing, or manufacturers are not all reporting the weights the same.