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I sold an 89 Dodge to my brother about 4 years ago. 3/4 ton truck, 8100 gvwr, with air bags on the rear axle. He called me one day and said he just hauled 6300lbs of scrap steel to the scrap yard. He said he had 80lbs of air in the air bags to get the truck to sit half way level. He also said it did not want to stop at stop signs. I wonder why,,,,
That's quite a bit in the back of a 3/4 ton. The most I have had in the bed of mine is about 5k. I was hauling two pallets of brick pavers that weighed ~ 2500lbs each. It handled it good. It was squatting a little, but not too bad.
Should 6300lb payload impress anybody here?
I do have receipts for 2150 lb on old El Camino as well as 10,100lb on my F450.
Proportionally, that 6300 lb load is more impressive than yours. Your el camino probably had at least a 1k lb payload, so your 2150 lbs was 2.15 times what it was designed to haul. Depending on what year 450 you have, that's not too impressive either. The average 450 has a gvwr of 15k lbs and weighs around 7-8k lbs(at least that's what mine was), so they can legally haul 7-8k lbs. 10k lbs is 1.25 times what it was designed to haul, and less impressive than your el camino.
Most 3/4 tons have a payload of around 2k lbs, so that 6300 lbs was 3.2 times what it was designed to haul. You would have had to be hauling 3200 lbs in your el camino and 25,600 lbs in your 450 to be the same overloaded as that 3/4 ton.
My 94 F450 weighed 11,800 empty, and I hauled a 14,000 back hoe on the deck once in my rookie days. That's 25,800 on a 15,000# chassis with 16" tires. Do I win? LOL
