Actual Payload of vehicles....
This thread was closed but I would like to put get some knowledge of actuals that may be of opinion or hard facts. http://forums.woodalls.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/28525924.cfm Im logi...
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donn0128 wrote:
Sadly the biggest thing you missed is the smallest thing on your vehicle. That is the sticker on the drivers door post. There is nothing you can do to alter that. Secondly is cost! Upgrades, or rather add ons can become very expensive and add exactly zero to the vehicles value, and some can actually reduce a vehicles value.
"There is nothing you can do to alter that."
Sorry, that just is not true. Well, perhaps, in a minor way, it is true. The OWNER of the truck can not change the sticker! However, there certainly ARE authorized upfitter shops in the United States that CAN install (some can even fabricats) new springs and print a new sticker for the vehicle. Such shops are all over the country. IIRC, there is one here in Billings, and one in Great Falls, and there are several in the Seattle/Tacoma area.
From a LEGAL standpoint, as others have pointed out, in many states a truck can be registered for nearly any weight the owner wishes to assign it, and it is then LEGAL for any w3eight under that. When I had the old 1994 Dodge 3500 CTD I had it registered for 14,000 GVW.
It seemed like a nice round number, and I knew I would never exceed it! I also put Load Range E tires on it, and a previous owner had installed HUGE overload springs on the rear axle.
Remember, the door sticker is just exactly that, a removable sticker! The numbers are not stamped into the steel.
