[Fish]

The 10,000 pound gvwr for "3/4 ton" trucks is really nothing more than a registration and licensing scheme. 10,000 minus your truck weight equals your payload capacity. The axle ratings on most of these HD 2500/250 trucks will be a lot more than that. The tires will sometimes be a limiting factor but they can be changed and upgraded.

I'm positive my 2015.5 Chevrolet 2500HD crew cab duramax 4x4 with 6 ft 6 inch bed would have pulled the Montana HC I have now, and also stopped it. I would have been over the payload of 2325 pounds but well under my IL license plate of 14,000 pounds.

But we were looking at fifth wheels to live in and all of them were huge, I went ahead and traded for a dually before we bought the Montana. For my own piece of mind. I didn't like the thought of a 41 ft fifth wheel pushing me down the curvy roads of Monteagle Mountain on my way to Florida in my short bed single wheel duramax.

Chevy said my duramax said it would pull a fifth wheel of over 17,000 pounds, my Montana tops out at 16,500.