Originally Posted by Mike B
I'm confused...your truck has a GVW of 8600 KG (almost 19,000 pounds) and you say it can only haul 3,800 pounds, that tells me your truck weighs 15,200 pounds empty. Is that right?

Here in the US the tire rating needs to meet or exceed the axle rating so the axle rating can be used to calculate your max load. In your case the front tires need to be rated at 2250 pounds each (4500# axle) and the rear tires need to be rated at 3750 pounds each (15000# axle) to be legal to max out at 19,000 pounds GVW. If you use a lower rated tire then the GVW gets lowered as well.

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Not quite, sorry if I've not explained properly. The truck is rated to almost 19000lbs according to the manufacturers plate in the cabin, but my registration documents state the total weight as only 14000lbs. And since the weight of the unloaded truck is specified as just over 10000lbs, I'm left with just under 4000lbs max legal load. The reason for the lower total weight is, according to the original registration papers, in order to avoid exceeding the max permissible front axle load. if it was due to the tires, I believe that's what the document would've said since I have seen similar documents stating that the total weight has been lowered due to load limitations on the tires. It doesn'tmake sense that they would attribute the lowered total weight to axle limitations if it were really about the tires...

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