Toyota fake 3/4 ton spotted, overheated

Stephen W wrote:
The company I retired from bought a new 2008 Tundra Limited to use as a shop truck. Beautiful brown leather interior. We manufactured industrial machinery and that truck was treated like **** for 5 years. It hauled and towed everything we threw at it with not one issue in 240,000 miles. As their national sales manager, I put at least 50k miles on it hauling machinery samples to shows and mills.

I towed a 16' tandem flatbed trailer (very heavy frame design with 4 wheel disc brakes) from Florida to Portland, Oregon for a trade show via Dallas, Denver, Salt Lake City and back.One of our engineers assured me the total loaded trailer weighed 9,200#. Truck was rated for 10,800# towing and it did just fine, running 65-70 mph most of the way, a little slower thru the Rockies. Upon my return, our plant manager flipped out over the amount of machinery on the trailer and took it to a truck stop to be weighed, disconnected from the truck. 14,120#! This was not like towing an RV, height was below truck cab roof and mostly heavy steel, so not much wind resistance. Clearly, we became more careful with our load weights, but that was one great truck. I'm a Ford guy and went thru 11 Grand Marquis as company cars, but I hate to see someone bash a Tundra, especially with no real facts about why it was on the side of the road.