Towing capacity vs max cargo weight rating
Hello all! Can someone clarify something for me? If a truck's max gooseneck trailer loaded weight is 15,100 lbs (as per manufacturer towing guide - it is a Ford) - how can the max cargo weight rati...
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Huntindog wrote:ogend wrote:
(for example, in some states 10,000 GVWR is some kind of a legal cutoff for things - how did the state arrive at this number? Why 10,000? Why not 10,500?).
The answer is so obvious that even a Caveman/Engineer can get it.
If they picked 10,500, then people would be complaining, saying "Why 10,500 instead of 10,000.
They needed to pick a number, so they did. End of story.
Yes but see an engineer would then wonder whether the numbers on the stickers (like payload capacity) are "engineered" to fit the 10,000 lbs (as in on paper) or if the components are actually engineered to fit the 10,000 number or...? In other words - are you actually physically building components/systems to fit within a number or are you slapping numbers on stickers just to make the numbers fit (regardless of what the actual components are)?
The caveman, on the other hand, would just jump to the "end of story" conclusion, yeah?
So, do you actually know the answer to the question above or are you just here to have some fun? ;)
P.S. I should say that I came here wondering about legal limits and definitions but ended up more interested in what my truck can handle - supported by actual engineering/numbers.
