Bob,
I have gone out of quarry or three over 10000 even 11,000 once with my 20 Reg cab. Not sure what the heaviest we had the 81 up to.
As noted by someone else, while my door sticker per say, 8600 less the 4800 empty wt says 3800, In reality, being as how it is set up etc, it has a HEAVY rack, sits there around 5300 lbs, an 8000 lbs registration, so in reality, a whopping 2600 lbs of payload. For $15 or so, I can get a 10K plate, and have 4600 lbs of legal payload. At the end of the day, at least here in Wa St, as long as I am not over the Federal Bridge laws for tire width, ie 500 lbs per inch width of tire, to 20K per axel. I'm legal. So around 20K lbs total in a typical SW pickup truck of any nature. Assuming 4 10" width tires, 10K per axel. How many of us are over or near that amount?!?!?!? Did not think so!
marty
