Will a 3/4 ton do

valhalla360 wrote:

mkirsch wrote:
Show me a truck that IS rated to tow 4 times its own weight.

Any DRW 3500 that's rated to tow 30k+ is pushing 10k empty these days. I'm talking about the bare truck fresh off the dealer lot. Puts you down in the mid 3's.

Now I'm going to blow your point clean out of the water: The only thing limiting a Class 8 truck is THE LAW. 80K is a legal limit. The truck is capable of far more. You can get overweight permits and tow at 102K gross easy. That gets you solidly into the "3's" with your Class 8 truck strawman. Far more is possible, all you need to do is pull the permit and have enough axles on the ground.

The Class 8 truck will do 4-5 times its own weight all day every day with a smile. A DRW 3500 at 4 times is going to start showing fatigue and wear quite early in its life.

I saw a commercial of a toyota pulling the space shuttle so, clearly there is one truck that can tow 4 times it's weight. ;)

Actually in practice, I approved a permit for an overweight load of 500k lb (It was a press being shipped in for GM). Trailer was quite the monstrosity to keep the axle loads down but the semi-tractor was pretty much stock and I doubt the tractor was over 100k lb.

And the stuff I've seen in other countries...In India, the typical single unit truck had spring packs a foot thick on the rear axle...and they were still probably overloaded.

And none of this is very relevant to your average RVer.

This is actually one of the most relevant things posted on this topic. What you just effectively communicated is that average, too much time on their hands, sticker readin, non understandin, overtly literal and arguably overly cautious typical rvnet weight cop might may just be a teensy weensy bit overzealous in their assertions!