Well, I just wanted to pay tribute to how much I run my old dump truck into the ground and it just keeps beggin for more!! First off the O/D has been a off and on thing for about 4 yrs.. Finally it is blown out.. I've tried everything.. So, 55 is my top[ speed wide open, and thats where it stays... I think a $20 spring will give me a little more Cheaper than a trans rebuild..lol Other than that this thing is rock solid.. I had a full load of broken concrete on it and pulling my 8800lb enclosed trailer... So I thought it was a lot for a 1st gen..

It has 4.10 gears, rebuild pump at 130k, currently 147k... pump is pretty tame, because trans can't handle anymore..lol New springs all the way around a few years back, about 1/2 turn slop in the sterring wheel, pulls to the left like crazy, barley stops, basically a road hazard... But it won't die, so I keep rumming the **** out of it... 11mpg loaded or empty, doesn;t matter.. I love it, just waiting for the frame to snap in half or something so I can leard how to rip into that motor and make it rip for my yellow mudder!!

 

nice load, I scaled at 35,780 last week in our f650 w cummins in it, and 130 thousand miles on it. beggin for more ? yeah, gears anyway !

 

That is workin' it! The motor will love it - but you can see how much the rest of the drivetrain is enjoying the ride.

 

Get some taller tires and you may get 57 mph out of it. lol

 

Nice truck! It looks tough! At quick glance you'd think its a tractor-trailer dump truck. Nice hood too...

 

Sweet! great looking truck. I run way over weight and need springs too, what did you do for yours?

 

Just something to think about so don't take this the wrong way.
Twenty some years ago a friend of mine was in the concrete business doing basements, block work, sidewalks etc. He had a Chevy C30 dump licensed at 11,000 GVW here in PA. They came up a bit short on the gravel that they had delivered so he took the truck about 8 miles to the local gravel pit and picked up around 4 tons of gravel. He got stopped about half way back and got a written traffic warning for overload. The fine back then would have been something like $47.50 for the first 1,000 pounds over and something like $2 or 3 for each additional pound over that. He sold that truck a few months later and bought medium duty 50 Series truck to replace it.

 

Ya, I know.. I think about it all the time... But Bus is slow and we really can't afford a bigger truck. So, I have to make due with the old Dodge.

Does anybody know, how much legally I can haul?? The truck weights like 7950 empty... The most I ever had just in the dump, scaling in was a stagering 19,300!!! I was a wee bit overloaded...

 

What does the sticker on the door jamb say? 11,XXX is what mine has. Some states let you exceed that with a mechanical inspection certification. Check your registration to see what your GVW is listed at.

 

here in california you pay the dmv an obscene amount, and you can haul way more than a rig should. They go by rubber on the road. Im stickered for 20k gcvw, only cost about 700 bucks a year.

 

I already have the 24 gvw sticker.. But like you guys say, that really doesn't matter, what matters to the weight masters if you get stopped is the combined gvw of the truck I think.. I am gonna check...

 

very nice.. I towed at 15,400lbs this weekend and the truck did not even know there was anything behind it.. I LOVE THAT

 

Most registration cards have two specified vehicle weights:

Gross vehicle weight which is the maximum overall weight the truck can not exceed and:

Combination gross vehicle weight which includes the maximum truck weight + the total weight of the trailer and when ONLY coupled to the overall weight of the trailer. The additional braking factor is added along with the trailers capacity. This rated weight does not apply to the truck without the trailer attached.

 

I love to see first gen dump truck they are sweet! Keep it working

 

The only thing the creeper cops are concerned about is the registered weight. If you want to register the truck for 30,000 lbs, you can. It's not about safety, it's about revenue...