scale obsession

I’m more concerned about stopping than running out of power. I’m all about slow and steady, but if you can’t get stopped, your sunk ?

technically, once I subtract 500lb for passengers and 694lb for tongue weight, there isn't much left. While I'm probably playing on the edge of extra conservative, I would hate to get into the mountains and have issues.

I'm thinking I should have gone this route as well. One thing I did not take into consideration when purchasing the 1500, was how little payload the truck actually had, and how easy it is to get over the 7200 GVWR of the truck. I weighed the truck and was surprised to see it come in at 5900. Leaving a mere 1300 lbs for tongue weight, passengers and cargo.

I may have screwed up. I purchased my 16' silverado 1500 crew cab 4x4 with the intent of pulling a rockwood 2509s. I saw the truck was rated at 9100lb, the TT was 6869 GVWR and pulled the trigger. What I did not take into consideration of, was factoring the tongue weight of the trailer into the 7200LB gvwr of the truck. I put the truck on the scale yesterday, and it came in at 5900lb. TT has a tongue weight of 694lb. Once I factor in my passengers, I have 160lbs of payload left on the trucks GVWR of 7200. Do you guys think I'm over thinking all of this, or cutting it too close for comfort on the GVWR of the truck?