Overloading a pickup from time to time - a tradition?

In my opinion the rated load is what the truck could handle all day, every day, running the speed limit or maybe even a little more on an interstate in the desert on a hot summer day or whatever bad scenario you might encounter. If you slow down some, especially on bumps and turns, are going short distances in mild weather, the truck can handle quite a bit more. Just be aware of the load and how it affects your truck and you can get away with quite a bit. A case in point is pulling a space shuttle with a Tundra. I am sure that was way over the truck's rated towing capacity but was endorsed and even promoted by Toyota.

4x4ord wrote:

Looks like what I did to an '03 Tundra once on a Home Depot mission! :E

My 2013 F350 work truck gets overloaded many times per year. It has a service body bed and is full of tools and equipment. Carrying 3000 lbs. of ice melt or fertilizer and seed happens a few times every year.

Probably the worst it gets is during snow events. When I leave the house, it has a 960 lb. snow plow on the front, about 3000 lbs. of ice melt in the bed and often, a 22' trailer with a tractor and ATV; both with snow plows, too.

Its an F350 XL super cab 4X4 with the 6.2L engine. Over 70,000 miles and 3.5 years without a single problem. Its been a great friend.

06Fargo wrote:
1972 F150, std cab, 6cyl 3spd, 2wd, 8 ft box. HR78-15 tires, load range who cared then?, no tuner.

Box filled with bulk fertilizer at about 55lbs per cubic foot.

I once had almost the same truck (although back then it was actually an F100) but with a 302 V8. Empty weight was just 3800 lbs., and GVWR was just 5000. Can't recall what the RGAWR was, maybe 3200?

By my math the fertilizer was over 5,000 lbs. Good thing it's flat where you were, out here in the west the clutch would not have survived long trying to start that load on a hill!

On occasion yes. My XD this morning with 2 yds of topsoil. Figures my image won't show.
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4x4ord wrote:

He needs a lazy axle, no wait, is that a right hand drive donkey?:

06Fargo wrote:
Mornin' Marty - 06Fargo thinks opposite of what you thought he thinks...or thought ... :)

Poor Grit would have to deal with Mr Winston, back gate guard dog.......He has teh BIGGEST tongue in the Salish Sea. Will like him to death over the next year or so. LOOOOONG slow painful death it will be. Not sure I want to put folks thru that.

If any of you have had to deal with a King Charles Cavalier, you'll know exactly how they are......lolol

Marty

We cut some blocks and put between the frame and axle on an F350 so we could load the bed with concrete to get it to a place the concrete truck couldnt make it to.

A couple folks in our farming region will throw a good size load on a pickup once in a while... now I do recall one instance of a pickup truck load related failure... you math guys calculate the GVWCRWARDRR on this one:

1972 F150, std cab, 6cyl 3spd, 2wd, 8 ft box. HR78-15 tires, load range who cared then?, no tuner.

Box filled with bulk fertilizer at about 55lbs per cubic foot.

Rear axle housing broke at the diff.

Shobbel party to off load, towed the truck home, got an axle from the wrecker, back on the road in 3 days. Truck run for years afterward.