BobsYourUncle wrote:
My 78 may have only had the 3800 payload, but back then I didn't even know what the ratings were, much less adhere to them.
I used to strip stucco off houses and install aluminum siding.
I remember one time I piled a house full of stucco in the back, a piece of plywood front and back inside my rack, and I heaped it in there until it was over the top of my toolboxes.
Poor old truck was severely sagging in the back, down to the snubbers. Steering was super light.
Went to the dump, weigh in and weigh out, I will never forget that load. I had 3 1/3 tons in the the back of a 3/4 ton truck, 6,680 pounds!
I thought nothing of it, it became a challenge to see how much I could carry. That was the biggest load ever.
That isn't the only time I grossly overloaded it.
Good truck, it just kept on going.
Can you imagine going to the coffee shop in Turner Valley in 1978 and lecturing someone about strictly not exceeding the door sticker GVW of their pickup truck .... ahahahahaha!
