Ask Autoblog: What determines a truck’s payload capacity?

Thu, Sep 29, 2005

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Ask Autoblog: What determines a trucks payload capacity?

In our post on truck payload capacities, one of our
readers asked about the physical differences between trucks rated for different payloads. I’ll take a crack at
describing this, but space limitations necessitate painting with a broad brush. Feel free to add additional info in the
comments. To start, we can break things down into three basic categories – single-rear-wheel trucks under 8500 lbs GVWR
(half-tons and some “light” 3/4-tons), single-rear-wheel trucks over 8500 GVWR (all “true” 3/4-tons and some 1-tons),
and dual-rear-wheel trucks (the remaining 1-tons).

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Ask Autoblog: What determines a truck’s payload capacity? originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 29 Sep 2005 12:00:00 EST.


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