GVWR on my F250 is 10,000, which is more than most 1 tons on the road today. Looking at the 2006 Ford towing guide I'm seeing F350's to 13,000 per the brochure. Last week while having fuel filters changed I walked around the new trucks lot and saw an F250 with GVWR over 11,000. I'm not sure what option that was. And a dually F350 at 13,400. I think the F250 had the camper package but don't remember for sure. In any case, the 10,000 GVWR will not be exceeded by many Montanas and the 11k and above GVWR will handle any Montana including ours with 3,300 scaled pinweight. Trucks have come a long ways the past few years.
Ours has 52,000 miles on it now and still does a terrific job and uses no oil at all, even towing those 14% and 12% grades we did recently. The brakes are also larger than most 1 tons as is the frame. I am over GVWR and that is the one reason why next time I'll probably go with a 1 ton. However, there is nothing illegal about being over GVWR so I don't worry about it. Actually, there is one legal issue in some states - that is the registration fees and/or taxes are based (in some states) on the weight rating of your truck so if you're over that then you didn't pay enough to the state. When I asked in Kansas about this I was told they don't care so long as I pay for the truck's rating. That was admittedly several years ago though.
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