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Originally Posted by knapper42
Now I'm confused. I have a 3560RL we bought last Jan in Quartzsite and have pulled it with our Ram 2500 diesel. The Cat scales shows my Ram weighs 8560, front 5120 - rear 3440, fully loaded includes BW hitch.
Hitched to Montana shows, front=4880, rear=6280, trailer=10820 making combined 21980.
The truck spec shows gcwr as 25K. so that seems ok
The Pin weight shows to be about 2980. so that's not good because the truck spec say payload is 2150. 830lbs over weight. right?
rear tire capacity is each tire 3560. capable of carrying the payload. also have air bags to take some strain off of the coil spring.
it looks like to me that the total weight are within spec but the payload is exceeded but yet the tires and axle are capable of carrying the weights.
Where the heck do I stand? sorry to be so dumb but after reading all these posts I concerned I'm not traveling safe.
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The ultimate limiting factor for all tow vehicles is their GVWR. PERIOD!