tires overloaded?
recently bought a new TC and fully loaded, ready for travel, weighed it at a CAT scale. left me just a few #'s under what the tires are rated for. It rides good, no sway, no sag but being so close to...
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My co-worker just returned from a trip to Big Pine CA for some early season trout fishing. Lost a tire on the SRW Superduty with camper on it. Luckily he felt it as soon as it started to de-laminate, and before the tread started flapping he had it off the road.
Truck campers are much higher off the axle than a motorhome, and usually very heavy in the rear so unless a you have a DRW truck, more tire on a SRW is better than trying to cheap out or play the % of safety margin game. An engineered margin is only as good as the manufacturer was that day. Tolerance is always noted, but on a heavy truck with highly mounted mass like a camper pitching, yawing and rolling down the road I don't want to be wondering if my tires were at the bottom of tolerances or the top! Go big as you can or go DRW.
Truck campers are much higher off the axle than a motorhome, and usually very heavy in the rear so unless a you have a DRW truck, more tire on a SRW is better than trying to cheap out or play the % of safety margin game. An engineered margin is only as good as the manufacturer was that day. Tolerance is always noted, but on a heavy truck with highly mounted mass like a camper pitching, yawing and rolling down the road I don't want to be wondering if my tires were at the bottom of tolerances or the top! Go big as you can or go DRW.
