Pickup truck snapped in half - photo

[hemmjo]

Any load carrying vehicle should be happy with any load that you can fit in the space, because the designers know that someone will be pushing the limits.

I think that is a bit un reasonable. That is making everyone pay extra for something they do not need just to protect a few people from their own stupidity.

My 2005 extended cab Tacoma has a max payload of 1400 pounds. With passengers, fuel, and some tools that brings the "load capacity" down to under 1000, maybe 900 pounds. It has a 6 foot bed, with about 3 1/2 feet between the fender wells. A pallet of used paving bricks is about 24" high, 40" wide, 54" long and weighs about 2500 pounds. It would easily fit in the bed of my truck.

Or if I want to haul a steel stamping die that size it would weigh about 14,700 pounds!

Making a truck strong enough to carry anything someone might want to put in a truck is not feasible.

I do not want to pay for all of that extra capacity, pay for the extra fuel to haul that extra weight around, endure the rough ride when the springs are not flexed at all when I am just hauling tools, a couple of sheets of plywood, some bags of fertilizer, or a few cans of fuel for my tractor.

[odd one]

That is making everyone pay extra for something they do not need just to protect a few people from their own stupidity.

We all pay extra all the time for just that reason....Think of all the extra Darwin protection devices on half the stuff we own.