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I searched this forum for information on payload & towing capacity of the Chevrolet Viking 40 and Chevrolet Viking 60 trucks with no success. Does anyone have any information on this?

the door jam will tell you. . .

look for somthing saying "GVW" or "GVWR" take the truck's weight and subtract it from that number that will give you the pay load. . . the V-40 i would say 5,000lb and the V-60 12,500lb. . .

my K-3000 GVWR 12,500 truck with the dump bed was 7,000lb so it's payload was 5,500lb. . . truck now might only be 6,000lb so now pay load maybe as high as 6,500LB. . .

GVWR= truck payload fuel people maximium total weight. . .

example 1: my K-3000 GVWR:12,500LB truck empty weight 6,250lb
cargo can't weigh more than 6,250lb. . .

example 2: my B61T GVWR: 120,000lb's truck empty weight is 17,500lbs so trailor+cargo can't weigh more than 102,500lb. . .

example 3: my M123A1C GVWR: 300tons (600,000LB) truck empty weight 21 tons (42,000LB) so trailor+cargo can't weigh more than 279tons(558,000LB). . .<<< Big truck more like HUGH! truck. . .

make the truck ligher payload goes up. . . make truck heavyer payload goes down. . .

hope that help's I might have just confused you more. . .

Mike

My '59 Viking has a GVW rating of 14,000 lbs. When my truck is empty, it weighs 6,840 lbs. That would allow for a 7,160 lb payload.

I have hauled as much as 11,000 lbs. But I could tell that I was overloaded, just by the way that it handled and stopped. Not a wise thing to do. I could have received a ticket. I didn't load it, and only asked for 3 1/2 tons, but I can hear the officer now saying, "tell it to the judge".

John

My 59 Viking 60 has a 16,000 GVW