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...
Forum Discussion
Kayteg1 wrote:
How often farm truck run at 70 mph for several hours?
A lot of life was close to home but it went to a few cattle sales and it might have gone over 70 a time or two.... for an hour or two:) That truck had a hard life even before we owned it because we bought it as a totaled wreck and rebuilt it.
As a retired engineer that did some stress/environmental testing for weapon systems that went on fighter aircraft I know that a lot of "failures" were due to setup errors (I know... I made some of them) and had the system under test been properly fastened the break would not have happened. One such test cost us tax payers a lot of money as things that had been in service for decades got replaced/scrapped to "prevent failures" even though the vibration levels were bogus, the system was improperly mounted, and I had tons of data to back it up. The powers to be just wanted to be safe because a failure had occurred. That was almost 30 years ago and it still irritates me at the waste of money.
I guess I just find it hard to believe most cast rims of different sizes and designs from ford (only ones I looked at) have the exact same load rating. Like I said though.. the wheels/tires I run now are within their ratings.
