myredracer wrote:
spud1957 wrote:
myredracer wrote:
Just got a "new" 2012 GMC Sierra 2500 CC. Just ran through a hwy truck scale today. The door jamb sticker says payload capacity of 2922 lbs but when I subtract the actual weight from the GVWR, I get 1674 lbs. Just added a canopy/cap and am guessing it weighs around 200 lbs so that would account for a bit of the difference.
Same thing on our old F250. It had a sticker payload cap. of 2800 lbs (approx., going by memory) and an actual of 1800 (again,approx. by memory).
Is it because the vehicle manufacturers use a stripped out reg. cab model for GVWR? The crew cab and 4x4 driveline stuff will add quite a bit of wt. Maybe that's the answer??
Our TT has a TW of 950 lbs. So the Sierra is okay there, but what if we had 4 adults, the dog and a bunch of cr@p in the bed? We'd be over the GVWR...
Something doesn't add up.
What did the scale say you weighed?
The payload sticker is simple. GVWR of said vehicle minus the curb weight of the same vehicle.
Highway truck scale? Not your best choice. Cat scales would be better.
I just happened to be going across the border today to pick up a parcel and there's a truck weigh scale right there so I did a quick in and out.
Yeah, pretty easy to calculate. I've weighed before on this same scale and compared it to a scale at a grain elevator on the same day and got the same result and also at another hwy scale on the WA state side on another day and all 3 were the same.
The scale total today was 3550 kg, 7826 lbs and the GVWR is 9500 lbs.
I might need to double check the weight another day at a CAT or other hwy scale. Haven't weighed the TT for a few years and could do with another weigh-in at a CAT scale somewhere anyway.
I weighed our F250 quite a few times and always got the same discrepancy.
Two things:
If the truck is a diesel CC 4x4 I don't believe an empty weight of 6570, maybe on a gas 2wd, but not a cc diesel 4x4 GM 2500.
Our 2015 GMC Denali CC SB 4x4 duramax is 7400 empty by weight and by the sticker our 2004 was about 400lbs less add a canopy hitch and your at 7700 or so on 2015, 7300 on a 2004. course the 04 had a 9500GVWR while the 2015 has 10000GVWR so the payload is about the same.
