Originally posted by lesmore49 I've never had a pickup truck, driven plenty of them though. We bought our vehicle last year, it's not a pickup, but it is a good sized SUV.
I checked our SUV's rated payload and it's not bad, in my humble opinion, it is rated at 1612 pounds, total payload, according to the GM towing/payload sticker, in the door frame.
But I realize it's not a pickup truck. I believe they have higher rated payloads...in terms of what the vehicle can carry, in terms of total weight.
I saw this picture , looked at the load the guy in his Ford F 150 is carrying, and thought to myself...my SUV cannot...definitely cannot carry a load like this...and I would say this pickup truck featured in the article, must have a humongous 'payload'....that I can only dream about.
I know there are some guys on this thread that have pickup trucks. I would ask them, if they routinely carry loads like this in their pickup beds ?
My 2001 Dodge Ram 3500is rated for 22,000lbs GCVW (gross combined vehicle weight), which if the total weight of the truck, trailer and load. The heaviest I have run is 21,500lbs, while loaded with the 8 foot camper, a full water tank, food, personal stuff, my 32 foot enclosed race trailer, the race car, two sets of extra tires and wheels, tools, a 50 gallon barrel of race fuel, etc.
I tried moving our 16 foot wide 75 foot trailer house with it before we built our house. The ball on my hitch was the same size as the tongue on the mobile, so after jacking the trailer up, installing the wheels that had been thoughtfully left under the thing, removing the blocks and setting it on the ground I backed the truck up and began letting the tongue of the house down. It settled down on the ball, and the back of the truck began to sink under the weight. I kept letting it down, the truck kept getting closer to the ground.
Lower.
And lower.
Still lower.
Eventually the rear bumper of the Dodge was on the ground, and my jacks were still not free.
So, I got the phone book (remember those?) out and found a mobile home mover who was hungry and looking to make a fast buck. He came right out with a proper mobile home moving truck (a modified semi tractor), hooked up, and moved the trailer for me. I wanted to build my house right where the trailer was sitting, so I needed to move it about 30 feet south from where it was.
He did it in about 30 minutes.
Cost me $200.
Then I jacked it back up, reset all the blocks, leveled it, set it down, reconnected the power, phone and water line from the well. moved the steps from the back door to the front door (the porch was dismantled and scrapped), and we began building our new home.