homeskizzle

Yeah - check with your sod place. Back in my stupid teen years, I got a half pallet of wet sod and they loaded it into my dodge dakota. Not my finest move.

mass-hole

I will say I loaded my truck with what I estimate to be 2500 lbs of crushed stone and drove it a couple miles down the road to a guy who wanted to use it to top his driveway. I do have Airlift Ridecontrol air bags which are supposed to lift 2000 lbs and I filled them to the max and the truck was still sagging a couple of inches, which is why I figured 2500 lbs.

The truck certainly didnt explode, and it handled just fine, but I probably wouldnt have done it without the air bags. The truck probably would have been riding on the bumpstops and it would not have been good.

The other day I picked up probably 1300 lbs of laminate floor and it dropped the back of the truck a good amount before I got the bags filled up.

tsigwing

Had mine on the bump stops with a load of decomposed granite and river rock. Was fine for the 5 mile ride home.

berty

It's not about breaking the truck, its about being able to control it. These trucks hold wayyy more than the sticker says. I've had 3700 lbs in the bed of my truck, stupid as hell and sketchy as hell but no issues. My rule of thumb is to try to keep it under 2200 lbs. I know my truck and I have an understanding of when I'm pushing the limit, and its around that weight.

iplayloudly

I've picked up full pallets of sod numerous times in the past on a small 4' x 6' trailer that had a weight limit of 1650 lbs. I never knew exactly how much weight I put on it, but usually the tires almost rubbed the fenders. Not directly related to your payload question, but my point is I'm pretty sure the pallets always weighed well over 1650 lbs.

Having said that, nothing ever broke.

uzikaduzi

while I have definitely overloaded my truck with firewood or top soil, I think most people would agree that staying under the recommended limits of your truck is the best advice... renting a trailer is cheap and could make this one trip.


my payload on my last f150 was around 1800 and I'm quite sure I've had about 3k pounds in it for a 7 mile drive. I got home without incident and didn't seem to damage anything... there are safety margins built in for sure, but what are those? does anyone know? people say the limitations are the springs or the axles or the tires, or the shocks, or the frames, or the brakes,... but really it's all of that. a 250 has all of those things upgraded. which of these are the weakest link? I have no idea.


my guess is if you do it there's a better chance than no that everything will be fine, but that's the same type of thing people reasoning people use to justify a bad idea. driving home a little buzzed, ignoring the evacuations on the Texas coast, not getting permits to do work towards your house,... all of those things have more dire consequences than putting 3k in the bed of your truck, but the reason people do those things are the same as overloading your truck... people thinking it will likely be alright.


what are you prepared and willing to replace on your truck if it doesn't work out? a trailer from uhaul is like $20 a day and could make it one trip giving you maybe an hour or 2 of your day back.