F350 payload dispute

blt2ski wrote:


As noted.by many, if you.have to ask, use door stickers! Even at that, how many have bought Per door sticker, only to find out the door sticker was not it was cracked up to be! Been there done that! Very expensive mistake. I can name a.few posters.that followed.The " you'll be fine mantra" you're under rating, I've said BS! Guess who was correct?

I've been there too. Even got the t-shirt and hat. Back in my early days in the medium and heavy duty industry I religiously followed all specs. Then after working for few of the manufacturers and learning what limits some of the specs of these trucks, I started to loosen up on following certain ratings because I found out which ones really mattered. I also found out that not all trucks or truck classes are the same and some probably need to be loaded under their sticker while others can safely handle way more.

When I started at the dealership level, I used to spec the trucks up for our customers. A customer would come in to order a truck or a whole fleet and I would help them design the truck to fit their application from the engine all the way to the back axles. Most of the larger fleet customers didn't really need my help since they had more experience than I did with their application. They were more comfortable going over certain specs since they had hundreds of trucks worth of experience with it. The one truck or small fleet customers were very wary of it and overspeced their truck because of it which made it more costly up front and with parts in the long run.

The short of is that people learn from experience and as you(and I) already stated "If you have to ask then go by the sticker". Although, I think some of the "per spec" people would probably **** their pants if they knew how may medium and heavy duty trucks were driving around them every day that are over their factory GVWR and/or payload sticker.