What are my TC options for towing?

burningman wrote:
Yes it does. It doesn’t change the original sticker, but that’s just like saying putting an addition on your house doesn’t increase its square footage.
The original GVWR is an artificial number to begin with.
If the factory installs parts that increase GVWR the day it’s built, or you add the same ones later, you can choose not to see them, but they’re there.
I once swapped an entire 3/4 ton frame suspension and axles under my F150 half ton.
Then I carried an 11.5 foot camper on it. To you, it wasn’t capable of doing that, but there it was.

My state plates vehicles for the "manufacturer's rated capacity."

It might give you peace of mind to add tires to a vehicle that came with only four, but it does nothing to increase its GVWR. There is no provision to have a modified vehicle reevaluated here, so if the sticker says 9900, that's your GVWR, regardless of what you bolted on. In fact, adding tires and fenders reduces your actual payload, since it increases UVW.

Either way, he needs a dually. The newer SRW 1 tons have good payload (4-6000 pounds depending on how equipped), but most configurations aren't going to have enough payload to have a 4k lb camper in the back and still have 1000+ pounds left over for tongue weight on a big trailer.

Maybe someday we need to modify the law to allow us to carry more when we have installed better tires, helper springs, or whatever, but until then, the federal motor vehicle safety standards, which mandate the installation of a tag with the vehicle's GVWR, are the binding rule.