GVWR

MFL wrote:
Wonder what happened to Swine???

Either he ran out of copy/paste material, or he moved to an actual truck forum and learned where the ratings come from.

Jerry

Either that, or he has realized there are more than one limit that we can load our trucks to.

The manufacture warranty limit

The civil court limit, which may or may not be the manufacture limit, depending upon the reason for the issue to be in civil court.

Or the FBL limit, which is the engineer based limit the road can handle load wise. ie 20K per axel, 34K per tandem, which can be limited to 500 lbs per inch width of tire. Along with many other point load limits to the road bed which are beyond any scope I have had to deal with.

last, the most important limit, if you are required to pay tonnage on you tag, that is lower than any of the above limits, that is your max amount. As I am only legal to 8000 lbs in my 2000 C2500. I can not legally run down the road at 8600 lbs as the door sticker states. If pulled over, I can expect a potential 600 lbs over weight ticket if weighed. Altho reality is, the local CVEO/LEO will give me a 10 day raise my tag to 10K and send me on my way, as I am below the FBL laws, my states weight law limits etc. So all they really want is the tax for the damage to the road I am causing at that GVW.

I have yet to see a "GCWR" law limit per say in any states, or the Federal Bridge Law max amounts I can run down the road at.I can legally run down the road towing a 100,000 lb load with my old 76 Toyota with a 120 HP motor if I wanted too. I am also assuming I am in an area where the speed limit is on the low side, maybe towing an over width load in farm country, or even city roads in Seattle lets say, where max limit is 25 mph, need pilot cars etc.

So reality is, there is more than one way to look at max weight you can run down the road at.

marty

So the question becomes, which load limit are you going to follow etc