Cummins12V98 wrote:
Please explain how I can load to my RAWR and NOT be over my GVWR. Why have a RAWR if I can't load to its limits.
If I load the front of my truck box with some 10" blocks and put some bags of Portland cement at the back of the box I might have placed 1400 lbs in the bed of my truck but because the heavier product is at the back I've lifted 100 lbs off the front axle. Now I hook onto my bobcat trailer that puts 1800 lbs on the ball. This removes another 500 lbs off my front axle and places 2300 lbs on my rear axle. So I've added 3800 lbs to my rear axle and removed 600 lbs from my front axle.
My rear axle is maxed out at 7300 lbs and my front axle is at 4750 - 600 or 4150 lbs. I've got my rear axle at maximum rated capacity and I'm still under my gvwr.
Edit: The previous numbers were just kind of pulled out of the air. After actually measuring the distance from the rear axle to my hitch receiver I see that putting 1800 lb of tongue weight on the rear hitch ball would transfer about 700 lbs from the front to the rear axle. So the bed of the truck could be loaded such that 100 lbs of the 1400 lbs goes on the front axle and the remaining 1300 on the rear.
