My truck has a sticker in the driver's door frame saying that it "conforms to requirements" and says something to the effect of "Cab and chassis over 10,000 gvw". Nothing stating axle weight ratings or GVW limit.

Where is that sticker supposed to be? I checked under the hood also and it's got all the belt routing diagrams, etc., but no GVW sticker. My truck used to be a rollback (I'm making it a flatbed car hauler) and has lots of extra leaves in the rear springs. The rear tires alone are rated for over 10k, I assume the axle is 10k, but GVWR for a brand new 3500 HD is still only 12.5k, which isn't a whole lot when you want to have a car on the back of the truck AND be DOT legal...

Basically, what can I do about this? Ideally I'd like up to 13.5k GVWR (planning on 19.5's or at least 3,042 rated tires), but it's GOTTA be legal.

 

Sticker should be on the door frame. GVWR is 10,500 on a 2wd, 11k on a 4X4. Axle ratings are 7,500 rear, 4k/4,500 front.

 

Jeez, that's way too low to carry any kind of car bigger than a Honda Civic. There must be some way to uprate them since there's a whole lot of 1-ton, 19' rollbacks out there.

 

It'll carry the weight, it just isn't rated for it. As far as the state is concerned, as long as you have the registration and the tires for the weight you are legal.

If your rear springs are 10 leaf they are rated for 7,600 lbs.

 

13 leaves per side actually, and for some reason it didn't have rear shocks on it when I bought it... and drove it 700 miles home.

 

Then somebody's beefed the rear springs from stock.

Tag it for a little less than the tires will carry and you will not be hassled.

 

around here (oregon) they will get you for what the tires will carry not what it is taged for.

 

yah, in cali with altered bed trucks they go by the tire rating, not gvw. if you can afford the registration. I got to come up with over 400bucks by april to get the 15,000-20000 class.