What am I missing on GVWR??
I have a Ram 3500 SRW crew cab short box. The door sticker shows GVWR as 10,100lbs. The front axle max weight is 5200, Rear 6200. Truck weight 7300lbs (diesel). I thought the calculation to carry ...
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op wrote:
Tires are 265/70R17E 2731 lbs. So does that mean for the pair of rear tires I have 5462 lbs of capacity? Well under what the axle can handle... what a flaw of initial design...
The 2731 lbs is for a dual wheel application as in a one ton drw truck (dually)
LT265/70-17E have 3195 lbs of capacity when used on a single wheel.
The BC clicky posted is not any type of weight code and is just a fact or info sheet. RV websites are notorious for posting them.
For actual weight codes we have to go to..... BCs Motor
Vehicle Act and Regulations.
Looking at BCs
"weight scales" section says:
(4) The gross weight of any vehicle or combination of vehicles shall be the sum of the individual gross axle weights of all the axles of the vehicle or combination of vehicles.
BC posters have chimed in on our trailering forums and other rv websites and all agree they register their trucks at a gvwr however it can be the truck makers gvwr or use the sum of the GAWRs as the trucks GVWR. BC weight scale code confirms this.
BC is no different than states weight codes according to those that make their living pulling trailers (non rv) in the US and Canada.
