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My experience was the same as Cat's when it came to shipping weight and actual payload capacity--the shipping weight numbers on the invoices accompanying Ford pickups shipped to dealers here in the Northern Virginia area were always several hundred pounds less than what I calculated as the actual weights of the trucks (which I calculated as GVWR minus the max cargo capacity number on the tire sticker on the door frame). Nor was I ever able to get anyone at any Ford dealership who could explain the difference. Fortunately for me, Virginia uses the lower, shipping weight numbers in determining personal property taxes, so I'm happy Ford understates the weight in their shipping docs. But it does make it harder to know what the actual weight, and the actual payload, of your vehicle is going to be when you order it.
David and Jo-Anna Kikel
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