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Still running an old 94 f-150 long bed. The running gear is good.Brake and steering systems have been rebuilt. The frame is a little dicey. Replaced some of the cross members and welded up any fine stress cracks that i could find before they got to be a problem.



I guess it's a half ton pickup truck when it's new. Maybe a 1,250 lb load limit ?

I figure around 600 lbs -or- half of what it was when it was new is the limit for my old machine.

I have a 07 Tacoma with a 4x10 trailer with a drop down gate for wheeling up appliances and such with my dolly. As I am getting more into scrapping I am seriously considering selling my daily driver(4runner) and getting a full size pickup. Used to have a 01 chevy 2500 until a cow decided to run out if front of me and total it!

You can have your GVWR changed at the department of motor vehicles. That comes with a higher registration fee of course. Back when I had a 3/4ton F-250 I had it registered with a 26,000 lb GVWR. I could have had a GVWR of 56,000 but I was too young to get a CDL.

Originally Posted by 520

You can have your GVWR changed at the department of motor vehicles. That comes with a higher registration fee of course. Back when I had a 3/4ton F-250 I had it registered with a 26,000 lb GVWR. I could have had a GVWR of 56,000 but I was too young to get a CDL.

Are you able to remember that far back so that you could tell us the procedure you had to go through to have the GVW of your F250 changed. I've done it a few times with the F350's and larger trucks to avoid the expensive plate fee.

Anytime I was hauling more than my registered GVW would grab a one way permit to cover the weight, keep in mind though I still could not exceed the manufacturers recommendations for said truck.

You can get overwidth permits but then your required to travel certain times of the day with pilot cars.

So as not to keep everyone in suspense waiting on a reply from you, the GVW maybe registered below that of the manufactures listing, the department of motor vehicles requires that you bring in a weigh ticket from having the truck weighed on a scale - empty.

I would suggest pressure washing all the grease and mud from the truck to get an accurate weight - no sense in paying a license fee for grease/ crude, rust scale and mud when it could be actual payload. Emergency equipment, flags and flares, fire extinguisher, chalks and chains etc that you use daily should be tared in with the truck.

I not only have a CDL with air endorsement but have also my National Safety Code number. When we had the yard in Hope we purchased the DOT vehicle inspection manual from the Queens Printer. When the truck went in for its yearly safety all out repairs beforehand had been done by the book.

By having the book won two argument with the inspector who had to call his boss the verify, anyhow the electric horn did not work but the twin air horns did he wanted to disqualify the truck until the electric was repaid. I won the argument.

Air brake equipped trucks require both an audible and visual indicator for low air pressure. The audible is an annoying buzzer that will not silence until the proper air pressure has been met, the visual consists of gauges and a red light. The red light did not work on my truck but had a wig wag installed.

With low air pressure your not going to miss the wig wag as it swings back an forth in front of your line of vision. What it boiled do to is he wanted all the factory installed equipment to work, but his boss said the wig wag would pass. Truck passed its yearly inspection with flying colors.

The DOT vehicle inspection book paid in spades, knowledge is power.

Logging trucks mostly have the wig wag, when your traveling down a steep mountain grade your undivided attention is on the road.

Correct. I had to have my truck and trailer weighed and inspected. Then I just headed down to the DMV and told them I wanted to raise my GVWR. It almost quadrupled my registration cost. I also had to get my health card but i forget if that was for the DMV or maybe it was my insurance that required it. This was all in AZ so i am not sure what the different requirements are in other states.

2005 ford ranger with my 4x12 trailer

I've got an 06 XTERRA Off-road
Does this count?

2005 Dodge Ram w/a Hemi. Not the greatest truck for scrapping but it get the job done and it's paid for. I also have a small 5x8 trailer and access to others if I need them. Probably gonna be trading my truck in soon and either taking on a 90's model chevy 1500 4x4 or looking for a smaller ranger or something of the sort hoping to get the Chevy for the pulling power.

I have a 1999 Chevy S10, it only have 70k miles on it. It is at 4 cylinder though =( with a reg so I can't go past 100 mph. (of course that's down hill with the wind pushing me)

Since my last post in this thread my Escort wagon crapped out.

Still have the Toyota for small loads and quick runs. Now it's got 329,000 on the clock.




And a '96 Ram 2500 Cummins for the bigger loads. Only 290,000 on that one.

Just picked up a 2006 24' International stakebed with a liftgate and Saturday and filled it with an ewaste pickup today. We now have two 16' box trucks and this baby

They're both Isuzu cab-overs, one 1999 and the other 2001 and they are both *superb* machines. With proper pmcs they'll run 500k miles easy. Don't have personal experience with other models but these Isuzus I can't recommend highly enough.

I always liked to drive heavy loaded vehicle, but I doesn't have any one