i looked online that the max payload for my 2010 scab 6.5ft bed was 1550 lbs...

anyone think it would be an issue putting a pallet of bio bricks that weighs 1900 lbs? or should the truck be able to handle it... i just dont wanna mess anything up...

thanks in advance...

and i know someone is gonna say that 1550 is the max payload for a reason, but sometimes manufacturers are conservative because they knkow people like myself won't listen... haha

 

First off, I guarantee your max payload is not 1550 lbs. That number that you found online is the maximum possible payload for a truck with no options. You need to look on the door of your truck to get the exact number based on your specific configuration. For example, the online specs Ford has posted shows that my truck has a max payload of 1510 lbs. However, my door sticker, which is specific to my truck, shows a max payload of 1205 lbs.

Remember, too, that the payload is not just the weight of the pallet of bricks you're looking to carry. It also includes you and any anything else you have in the truck. Therefore, with the weight of the pallet (1900) plus you (200?) and misc stuff in the truck (100?), you can easily be exceeding your max payload by 1000 lbs or so.

Can the truck do it? I'm sure it can. Can it do it safely? I guess it depends on your definition of safe. Will your truck fall to pieces while being overloaded? Not likely. However, it may accelerate the failure of some component down the road, so to speak.

Can you do it and should you do it are two separate questions. The safe answer is that no you shouldn't do it, but you've already shown in your post that you really don't care what the real limitations are, since you're asking for permission from a bunch of people that are unqualified to give you an answer (myself included). So the real question is, why are you even bothering coming onto an online forum to ask if it is okay to exceed a limitation, when it sounds like you've already made up your mind that you're going to do it anyway?

 

I hauled a pallet of wood pellets, 2000lbs, with my SCREW Lariat and I didnt even know they were there.

 

this was more of the answer i was looking for... and for the record, i borrowed a trailer to put the pallet on...

I've had my truck for about 4 months, and put 10,000 miles on it... as of this point the only real "truck" thing I used it for was to move my friend, but all the cargo probably weighed no more than 500 lbs...

I was just looking for some insight from others who I am sure have loaded up their trucks to the max, and how the trucks have handled the load.

 

I use the if it can fit I can haul it method. Of course only use that approach for short distances.

 

legally no, but can it yes.

 

FL240,
My door sticker (tread act max weight of cargo and passengers should never exceed...) say's 1762 lbs, with the 6.5 foot bed in a 2010 SCREW. my GVWR is 7700lbs, and both GAWR are 4050lbs, so 1550lbs is not unreasonable for an F150 I don't think.

 

Erik6911,
you can find quite a bit of info if you search for 5th wheel towing on this site. I would not recommend putting 2k lbs in the bed of the truck. If you managed to get where you're going fine, then great, but heaven forbid, something were to break, it would not be covered by Ford. Worse yet, if you wrecked with someone else, your insurance may balk at paying up if you were outside the weight limit of the truck.
That would be pretty harsh, but I have a friend with an F350 who exceeded his GCWR towing a forklift. He rear-ended a lady in a Mercedes not even 1/2 mile from where he left, and his insurance did not cover any of the repairs to her car, his truck, and they dropped him that day. He now pays over $600/month to get insurance from some 2 bit shop on the border. Don't take the chance I would say.

 

The bottom sticker is the tread act sticker which will show the max weight for your truck

This is it up close

 

Hell, I've had around 3000 lbs. in my '86 Mazda B2000. So much weight I was losing steering control going up on ramps....lol! If THAT little fella can do that much weight (and not the FIRST time, by far...I routinely carry a ton of sand or gravel in it), then a full-size truck ought to be able to carry 4000 lbs or more, similarly.
I watched a Chevy 1500 take a full bucket of fill dirt from a front loader last summer...that truck squatted on its suspension big time...HAD to be over two tons...had to be.