The dealers do not have crystal balls.
After reading some of these posts, I find it amazing that people expect the dealers to know what they are going to haul. The car dealer looked at my F-150 E-boost 4x4 and said the spec. sheet say...
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I got to agree with you that the manufacturers bare some of the blame. The commercial will show "Best In Class" tow ratings, but the truck on the screen is some Platinum or Laramie Limited. Turns out that the actual truck that hits that number probably needs to be special ordered and won't have nearly as many doodads as the one on TV. There's still a ton of clueless people out there and the endless wave will continue until actual tow capacities become more visible. Just as visible as the MPG number on 1/2 tons. All of us here know about the calculations, but most don't when they enter the world of towing. There's still lots of people out there that believe commercials, published numbers, salespeople, Youtube, their buddy, etc.
