Looking to see how much weight can i put in the bed of my truck?

first off, I have a crew cab 2006 f250 king ranch 4x4 with the 6.0 with the short bed. I have a tool box which totals 200lbs. I'm just looking to put 50, 50lb sacks of corn in the bed 2500lbs, it will be on a skid and just set in the back. I will have to drive about 150 miles with it. just wondering if i can load it in the back or if i need to get the 16ft trailer??? thanks in advance, Rhine.

 

Payload Rating: 2900
Toolbox: 200
Total available: 2700

In theory you can put more 2700lbs in your bed.

However I have done some more math for you..

Max GVWR: 10,000
Base Curb Weight: 6395
Estimated extra weight for KR goodies: 100
Driver: 200
Fuel: 200
Extra Crap:100
Total Available payload: 3005

Looks like youre good to go

That said.. If you have a trailer to use, I'd use it. The ride will be better, and it will be safer. Even though you will be within the limits of the truck, its always safer the further you are away from the maximums.

 

thanks for the info, the only reason i was considering putting it in the bed vs. the trailer is i will be working close to where the corn is and cain't haul the trailer when going to see customers. looks like rain here this week so i might have to wait until next week.

edit: i also do have the e rated tires and will bump them from 65 to 80psi before the trip.

 

I'd use the trailer, hell you have a diesel haha. If nothing else, it'll be easier to unload out of the trailer also? According to the sticker on my truck passengers and cargo not to exceed 2,335 lbs. If you didn't have the trailer I'd go for it, but since you do use it. Like stated before it'll be safer. I put 1400lbs of concrete in the bed of an old Nissan once soooo...........

 

My 07 weighs just a tiche more than 6,395lbs. He is looking at a ~7,700lb truck empty.

 

Mine is 7700 too.. I was just going off of the "specifications"

 

Don't you guys have any faith in SuperDuty?
I drive F450, but than I had over 10,000lb on my bed more than once.
While having 7500 lb on the bed, I am pulling 14,000 trailer.

 

The GVWR and Payload are kind of like the pirates code. More of a sort of "guideline" than actual rules

 

^^ What this guy says.

There are laws and then there is the real world.

There is GVWR and Payload and then there is the real world.

Like the elephant in the middle of the room.

 

Unless youre a commercial driver, then you better stick to the laws. Big fines if you dont...

 

If you want to go strictly by the numbers and stay "legal", weigh your truck with you, a full tank of fuel, and whatever you'd normally have in the truck while hauling this load. Then subtract that from your GVWR and you'll have your answer.

If you have a trailer available, I would follow the previous suggestion of using it. It would be easier to unload and you'd run less risk of being over your "legal" ratings. The only way you'll get a true number to work from would be to weigh the truck first and go from there.

The ratings you'll see in the Ford literature are for a "base" truck without any options, etc. My '05 F-250 showed a maximum payload of 2,700 lbs. in the brochure and their other literature. However, when I got the truck, the tire and loading decal on the "B" pillar said that it had a payload of 2,210 lbs. On the local CAT scales, the truck by itself full of fuel weighed 7,910. It had a 10k GVWR and from the T&L decal, it tells me that the truck weighed roughly 7,790 straight off the assembly line. With the full tank of fuel, the empty weight of the truck is pretty consistent with that.

This of course goes out the window if you're not concerned with being what some consider "legal". That's a call you'll have to make. Will the truck do it? Of course. Will it do it and stay within the ratings? Probably not.

 

I put 2 1 ton pallets of wood pellets in the back of my 8' bed once. That's 4000 lbs and it was a bit too much. I hauled it OK, but I wouldn't have wanted to go far with that load. My truck is rated lower than yours, though. 1 ton of pellets was an easy load.

I also carried a Lance slide in camper that, fully loaded, weighed in at 3000 lbs. Other than being a bit top heavy, it was a pretty easy load.

 

Thanks for all the responses so far, i have to stop in at a quarry first thing in the morning so I'll see what I weigh empty with a full tank of fuel. I might just go ahead and get the trailer and go ahead and haul two skids back and be done with getting corn for the year, thanks Rhine.

 

I once sent my wife to the quarry yard to pick up a scoop of crusher run for the drive as we were a little short, she returned with the truck sitting on crushed bumpstops with flattened tires the long bed was crested over by 21/2' at least the scale out ticket said she had #8100 of material in the bed! That was the last time she ever drive 1 of my trucks it was 2004 April 29 I still have the slip!
Jim&fat Monty

 

If you push the pallet all the way up against the toolbox it will be far better, leaving it all the way back is going to lift the front end quite a bit.