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Originally Posted by Ken / Claudia

To tow a large trailer you should learn and know what GVWR means for each vehicle, Payload of each vehicle, empty weight of each vehicle, hitch weight of trailer, CGVWR for the tow vehicle and axle weight ratings on the tow vehicle. Since you have both vehicles those are numbers easy to look up. You listed about half so far. Than go to the scale and get real weights. After that is done look at what the max. weight the tires are made to carry. Do not be alarmed when the trailer weights more than Keystone says. That is normal.

Originally Posted by CaptnJohn

Sometimes I just wish all states would require ALL tow vehicles to go over the scales. Then we would not hear how a 1/2 to is really a 1 ton and a 3/4 can tow Trump Tower if the yellow sticker is ignored. I heard twice while wintering in FL this year FL is considering checking random RVs. If true other states will see the revenue potential..

Originally Posted by kfxgreenie

Good, EVERYTHING is tagged at it's engineered weights and everything goes across the scale. Finally we all agree on something. Just look at how messed up the Government has the ratings of trucks all because of a "commercial" status. With the newer rolling scales these days it is not much of an inconvenience to go through at 20 mph.

So what will the DOT go by, one year of F150 had like 15 different GVWR, each increase about 50#. So the weigh master is going to get out of the station and look at the door tag?
Then will they look at it like OTR? front axle + rear axle equals GVWR.

In addition he GCWR is based on the HP Torque and axle ratio, and is not listed on the VIN or Payload tag. It can be increased simply by changing the axle gear ratio.