What I saw at the campground.
Every Christmas we take two weeks to visit family at the coast and travel down the coast. This year we spent a few days in Myrtle Beach. We were cruzing around the campground and I saw at least two ...
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blt2ski wrote:JIMNLIN wrote:
These 1/2 ton truck " look what I saw " threads are a hoot especially when a F150 is involved.
F150 GVWR run from 6xxx gvwr up to 8200 gvwr.
And 3xxx rawr on up to 4800 rawr.
And gvwr based payloads into the low 3xxx lb range.
We need a special forum for "look what I saw" threads that offers no weight numbers other than "must be" or a "good size" or its gotta' be overloaded just because.....with Marty as the mod.
Bad enough getting threads like this every few months, or multiple a month.......but to have ONE thread! heaven help me!
Oh for you RV.NET weight police! The REAL weight police in typically white pickups or vans, and in weigh stations on the interstate. DO NOT give one flying rats asset about the manufactures warranty weight rating inside you door! ALL they care about is you are under the engineer designed weight limits of the ROAD BED/BRIDGE DECK itself. That is the lessor of 500 lbs per inch width of tire or 20K per single axel, or 34K per tandem.
Using this example, MOST SW pickups have 4 10" tires, or 5000 lbs per tire or a total of 20K lbs they can put on the road before you are damaging the road bed.....THAT is ALL that a real weight cop worries about. Also as long as your paid for license is above what you weigh! Even if you are under the load limits, be above paid for limit, depending upon how much over. The LEO may just give you a 10day up your registered license weight by 2000 lbs as has happened to me a few times! That was 150% of my manufactures gvwr, and 130% of axel totals!
With that in mind. Ask yourself this......is the OPs example truly overweight per an LEO/CVEO? Oh and a ticket for being over weight is a no moving ticket, does not follow your driving record etc. Its an additional TAX to cover the damage you are doing to the road bed!
Now if the OPs example were to get field tested on its braking ability, and it fails....NOW THAT is a moving violation, follows the drivers record, and will get the vehicle red tagged, and OFF the road until the brakes are fixed! In this case, said F150 will probably not get fixed enough to make the grade. So the owner will have to show up with a better equiped tow rig!
More than one way to skin a cat at this game!
Marty
Oh, oh, the moderator will delete this post pronto or even delete this whole thread and ban this poster. :B:B:B
Since my Ranger rusted out while the engine, tranny, axles were still good contrary to what I was told here would happen I sold it. I now have a real 1/2 ton to pull my 5th wheel. BUT... after discovering a leak and rot I sold the 5th wheel and bought another. Now I am "one of those" again pulling a 2015 Cougar Lite 29 RET. Took it over the mountains on the way to South Carolina... Ho hum, no big deal up or down.
Trying to post pict of,what the OP was talking about but no luck.
Guess who got the image to work :B eheheheh!
