Just want to see what kind of weight have you guys had in your beds. 2 Times last week I carried around 2000# of lumber in my 04 f150 5.4.
Is this too much.....or has anyone had this much or more? I drove both loads about 65 miles. The only problem i noticed was that it was a very windy day and i noticed the front end seemed light and was sway alot.
I don't do this very often. Sometimes you have to take care of the customer no matter what it takes. I drive around 1200 miles a week and have no problem paying what ever the gas prices are. This is the best office on wheels....Period.

 

About a week after I got it I ahuled about 1200 lbs. of seed about 15 miles or so.
Once a month I go pick up a pallet load of dog food and ahul it home, that about a 60 mile trip and 1150 lbs, (21-50lb. bags).
I've hauled alot of lumber of various sizes, nothign too much though. My 4-wheeler weighs in about 700 lbs., my dog box weighs about 250, add three dogs about 50 lbs/ per dog, two shotguns, two pair of boots and two hunting vests.
Severar tractor parts and such.
I had the bed FULL of firewood a few times, probably the heaviest load of all, don't know how much wieght though.

I think the max payload for my truck is about 1600 lbs. so I haven't maxed it yet.

 

i had almost that much concrete in my truck, it still didnt sit level and i hardly noticed it; still drove great on the freeway.

 

It also depends on the road itself. I had an older F-150 that woudl pull my tractor just fine and dandy, squatted a bit but it was a heavy load. Always pulled great, one day I got on a road that was being resurfaced and they had ate the pavement off with one of those big machines and it was left groovy (not like disco days). With the front end just a little lighter the truck and trailer were literally all over the raod. It was a VERY SCARY 20 miles.

 

I had 500 sq ft of tile, thinset, and grout in my 00 f150 (forklift operator said the tile alone was 2k lb. I put the thinset and grout in the cab to counter balance. The suspension didn't bottom out...but would if I stood on the bumper and bounced lightly. Could have gotten another 300 lbs in her The lift operator said to go slow so I didn't damage anything. I was actually speeding though because I had to drop all the stuff off at my new house then backtrack to go to the closing. Made it with 5 minutes to spare

 

This fall i put 2400lb of wheat for planting in the back of my 04 Screw FX4, but I only drove for about 10 miles.

 

Last summer I was working 100 miles away from home in the desert and ended up gathering a load of gorgeous desert rock. I stopped at truck scales, figuring I had about 1800,but found that I had 2100#.
The road I had to drive was 395 from Boron, CA to San Gabriel Valley. This road has quite a few dips and whoopies and sweeps and roller coasters. I must say that at 60 MPH it was more than just a "little" squirrely over this terrain and sometimes would want to oscillate after the right kind of dip or rise. But the susp was not bottoming. So I pulled over and dropped off about 100# from right at the tailgate, and 65 mph was fine the rest of the way home.
Gotta also give some props to the F150 brakes. They hauled this load right down in no time when I decided to test it out.

 

I hauled 100 retaining wall stones for my brother. When we were loading I figured they were on the order of 17lbs.....turns out they were 26lbs....so I had a 2600# load and she handled like a champ. It was 300#'s over the 2300lb payload capacity (heavy duty), but it really didn't phase the truck.

-ii