Towing ratings?

[618 Syndicate]

If you're worried about getting scaled, you should be concerned with GAWR as well. You're far more likely to be over on an axle with a camper.
20+ years of Class A CDL experience here.

 

[Horus]

Ill See if I can find a better number then the one I have for axel rating but my rear suspension is rated at 6000lbs. 2x3000lb leaf springs. You and I know how assumption's are, so that having been said my current assumption is that the Axel will be rated for more than the factory suspension is.

 

[618 Syndicate]

Ill See if I can find a better number then the one I have for axel rating but my rear suspension is rated at 6000lbs. 2x3000lb leaf springs. You and I know how assumption's are, so that having been said my current assumption is that the Axel will be rated for more than the factory suspension is.

GAWR will be on the sticker along with GVWR.

 

[Supercharged111]

If you're worried about getting scaled, you should be concerned with GAWR as well. You're far more likely to be over on an axle with a camper.
20+ years of Class A CDL experience here.

I'd seen the 10,000# axle weight rating tossed around at some point, is that a general DOTism in your experience? That when in doubt they assume 10k per axle?

@Minn95Dually my camper is a 2007 Lance 1131.

 

[618 Syndicate]

I'd seen the 10,000# axle weight rating tossed around at some point, is that a general DOTism in your experience? That when in doubt they assume 10k per axle?

@Minn95Dually my camper is a 2007 Lance 1131.

Absolutely not. All vehicles are subject to maximums per license plate classes and vehicle labels. Whichever is lower is where they start calculating fines, and if the label is not visible or missing that's a fine too. If you're driving commercially the fines are higher, but ain't none of them cheap.

 

[GMCTruck]

I think that the GM brochures from that time period were pretty generous in their payload ratings. My truck, a 1995 GMC ECSB K1500, has a payload rating in the sales brochure of about 1700 lbs. In the glovebox, the cargo weight rating (CWR) is only about 750 lbs. Several years ago, i weighed by truck and with a full tank of gas and me in the truck, I am sure i tipped the scales at about 5800 lbs. So a payload of 1700 lbs would put me way over my GVWR of 6600 lbs. (I carried a travel lite truck camper on the truck for two years and the truck and camper hit about 7800 lbs on the scale, 1200 lbs over my GVWR.)
OP: what rear axle do you have? The 14 bolt semi-float or the 14 bolt Full float?

 

[Supercharged111]

I think that the GM brochures from that time period were pretty generous in their payload ratings. My truck, a 1995 GMC ECSB K1500, has a payload rating in the sales brochure of about 1700 lbs. In the glovebox, the cargo weight rating (CWR) is only about 750 lbs. Several years ago, i weighed by truck and with a full tank of gas and me in the truck, I am sure i tipped the scales at about 5800 lbs. So a payload of 1700 lbs would put me way over my GVWR of 6600 lbs. (I carried a travel lite truck camper on the truck for two years and the truck and camper hit about 7800 lbs on the scale, 1200 lbs over my GVWR.)
OP: what rear axle do you have? The 14 bolt semi-float or the 14 bolt Full float?

I don't think that affected the weight rating as I've seen a 14bsf with a 6000# rawr in an 8 lug. But my own CCSB with 14bff has a 5500# gawr, same leaf pack and 8 lug configuration.

 

[Supercharged111]

Absolutely not. All vehicles are subject to maximums per license plate classes and vehicle labels. Whichever is lower is where they start calculating fines, and if the label is not visible or missing that's a fine too. If you're driving commercially the fines are higher, but ain't none of them cheap.

Is that a state-ism in your experience?

 

[618 Syndicate]

Is that a state-ism in your experience?

Federal regs, enforced by state agencies. State police, DOT, etc.
And state regs like bridge laws etc.

 

[Schurkey]

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How is it that a C1500 5.7L is listed as having a 4-speed auto trans, but a K1500 5.7L gets a 3-speed?

That's not how they tended to be equipped.