Tire Ratings
There is no doubt about it. Truck campers are heavy and most of us are probably close to the load capacity of our trucks. When it comes to load capacity, the limiting factor is often the tires. I k...
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Just a question and not saying to disregard the wheel rating but has anyone every heard of a wheel failure (at least a modern OEM wheel) due to overload? I did a little looking and all I found were results of damage due to lug failure, tire failure, or collision with immovable objects where any wheel would have failed. I'm certainly not worried about mine as I'm under their rating and knowing what abuse I put wheels (and not modern ones either) through on the farm as a kid. The weight police would have strung me up for a few of the loads I brought home from the gravel pit, feed mill, hay field, etc. at the ripe old age of 16 or 17 on a 67 Ford F250. That truck was run hard and put up wet until we thought it was about dead so we sold it to a neighbor kid that put another 100k on it before it really went to pasture.
