Ultimate payload monster?
What do you think is the top payload rating among new one-ton trucks? All the advertising goes toward horsepower/torque and towing capacity, but what configuration is king of payload?
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JRscooby wrote:
Tractors, and class 8 trucks do in fact have GVWR/GCVWRs plus axle weight ratings.
Very rare to see GVWR, as it's almost always sum of axle ratings. GCWR? I've only seen it on individual components, like a transmission, almost never on a full chassis truck.
And I have moved more than a few permit loads. And when you run up on a scale, they will check the weight on each axle/axle group. But they don't look at the axle ratings. What they do look at is tire ratings.
Then there are other things driver needs to know about where he can haul weight. In my area, a tri-axle dumptruck can be legal, cross a line on the map, and be $3,000.00 plus court cost overweight.
A overweight permit for your 3500? In my state they would tell you to just buy the license for what you want to gross. Years back a friend sent his girl to license office to renew plates on his 7 class 8 Macks, and buy the plates for his new Dodge 3500. She came home with 8 80,000 lbs local plates
You took my overweight permit on a pickup example way too literal...
In case my point wasn't clear: recreational haulers treat OEM GVWR and GCWRs as laws of physics limits. Exceed by 100 lbs, all of a sudden you lose control of your truck.
Actual DOT enforcement focuses a LOT more on legality, than OEM performance specs. As you said, the only thing they care about is tire ratings, which is not even an OEM spec.
