I have the '96 shown in the sig. It has an 800# EZDumper dump bed in the rear rated to 3 tons.

I am building a garage and the big concrete pour is tomoarrow, so I went up to the limestone quarry to get a load of crusher run. They weigh you on the way in, then load you with huge machines used to fill 20-ton tandems. There is no way to tell how much you are getting, so I usually go by the bulge in the tires. Yikes! When I hit the scales loaded, I had a load of 6640 lbs. Total weight of the vehicle and stone was 14600#.

I worried all the way home at 50 mph with the OD locked out. The dumper tipped it without breaking, and I drove the truck to work, no problem.

Isn't this about the limit? Or have some of you hauled more on your 2500s?

 

I haul 11,000 every time I put my camper on and I have gone for thousands of miles. Sometimes getting up to 70 mph.

 

Ummm.....the limit?!?! I would say that is well past the reasonable limit for hauling in a 2500!! At 14,600 lbs, I'm sure your rear tires were well past their limit....assuming you even have E rated 285's? Not that it would matter since I'm sure your rear axle weight was in excess of 9000 lbs at that point. That is too much for a 2500.

I don't want to come off like the weight police but posts like this do attract that kind of attention.

Please be safe out there and be reasonable about what you haul.

 

DOT will let me go to 12,500, on my 2500. Who knows maybe even more as that was as far as we went to in the computer to see what I would legally be able to carry.This is on 245/75 E.And I run through the Rockies regularly. I imagine there is a large fudge factor in the engineering for the weight.

 

6640lbs I bet your truck was squattin real good.

 

Oh, yeah. I have routinely hauled 2-2.5 tons on the short 12 mile run from the quarry to my house, and it does not squat a bit. This was a different story, and I would not do it again. CTD NUT is right. Imagine the pain in the backside involved if it just flattens a tire, let alone all the other stuff that can go wrong.

 

Yes , like blowing a tire and swerving into oncoming traffic and killin someone and or yourself. Lets be smart out there guys these trucks do have their limits as much as we hate to admit it.

 

Bet thats not 11K in the bed Clayten. Can hardly belive that even with supplys that a slide in could be 11K, my brothers John Deere backhoe is only 15K and your truck is only around 7K. Like caper said lets all be safe about this. You can usualy get a lot more moving than you can safely stop in an emergency ( some times less than 100ft of warning) and I don't care how good you think your brakes are.

 

No it is not that is GVW. Hey I am legal, and I can go another 1500 lbs if I want to pay more but the camper does not weigh enough to warrant me to register it to that weight. At 70 mph 100 ft is hard to stop anything. So if the DOT thinks it is good so do I. And like I say I have put thousands of miles on this set up, and I plan to put thousands more on.

 

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Hey man I'm glad you made the run without breaking something though....just another hash mark for the mighty Cummins !!!

 

My '98 runs about 10K# (without the GN attached) regularly, and the rear drums are guaranteed to have you pulling the seat cushion out of your bum after a panic stop!

 

Never broke nothin with this set up. And like I say DOT will let me go another 1500 lbs making my total GVW 12,500. With this set up I am 10,500 lbs full of fuel and water no supplies. I am licensed and insured for 11,000 lbs.

 

Clayton, I think you have GVW confused with GCWR. A 2500 series truck has an 8,800 GVW.

 

Ya I know so when I bought the camper I thought I was going to have to sell it because the camper I thought was to heavy. So I went down to the motor vehicle department showed my registration and showed a weigh slip from a legal scale that showed 10,500 lbs. They said, that is fine and I can license this truck to 12,500lbs. I explained to them that my GVW was 8800. They where aware if this. I made sure everything was on the up and up cause I did not want to deal with this on the side of the road with the weight police. Hey I don't make the laws I just abide by them.

 

In Alberta, the last time I checked, they check that you do not exceed any of:
-> tire rating
-> legal axle limits (i.e. 17,000 kgs for a tandem dually, 9,000 kgs tandem, etc.)
-> 10kg/cm of tire width

GVW is the weight of the total vehicle combination (truck + trailer(s)), though RV'ers often call it GCW. Ram diesels are frequently used in oilfield hotshot service. I saw a dodge registered for about 32,000 kgs (that's a hair over 70,000 lbs for those keeping track).

Regulated weight limit is approx. 139,900 lbs for the right combination - special permitting is required above that.