Quick question on tow ratings
When I weight my truck and trailer at the scale and if the ticket says front axle x amount of pounds and the rear axle says x amount of pounds if I combine these two weights that amount should not exc...
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mkirsch wrote:Cummins12V98 wrote:
BUT, BUT, BUT I can't load to that RATED number.
Acceleration and braking. When you accelerate the weight shifts to the rear axle. When you brake the weight shifts to the front axle. Loaded to GVWR, every time you stomp a pedal, you are overloading an axle.
Why not on larger commercial trucks? Because those trucks are not capable of the levels of acceleration and braking a pickup truck is.
Hit a pothole, speed bump, a dip in the road will overload ANY rigs axles etc
Only saving grace on class 8s, they typically have a 25k rating, legal to 17-20k lbs per bridge laws.
One can buy overloads per axle etc, even my argument can go out the door!
Marty
