One Thousand Pounds

Man, pavers can be surprising... by the time we unloaded the pile from my truck, i was tired af.
I took 1 paver (all brand new and same size), threw it on a scale, and it said 22lbs.

Did maths on 100 pavers, and about shit myself.
Then added on my 250ish and dads 230ish, and was glad we only drove 10 miles.

 

Is this just a characteristic of the stock Sport suspension? I've had 1000lbs in the back of mine and you'd barely know it, but the same weight in the back of my SR5 would have set it on the axle.

I've seen plenty of pics of ORs with squatting butts too...

 

I've pushed 1500 lbs in the bed a few times. I weigh 230. I've done about over 1000 lbs of dirt and gravel, no squat. I did pavers with sod as well which I calculated to be about 1400 pounds, it had some squat but was fine.

The heaviest load I did was tile for my dad. I had no idea how much he had until we went to pick it up. It was over 1500 lbs for sure. I had a good amount of squat, enough to make the front steering a bit loose. Luckily that was only about 5 miles, but it still hauled it like a champ.

 

Please... The whole point of my post was not directed at any of you specifically, nor was it directed at how much I can load or how heavy I COULD load it.
My post was directed at those special people who feel that they have to mod their truck to carry a thousand lbs. There are hundreds of posts here, with more every day, from guys claiming that the truck is on the stops with a thousand lb load, and now they must mod.

Now, if you carry 1K all the time, that is another story. If I carried 1K daily I would AAL and move on.

Yes, there was a thousand lbs. I didn't take a pic to show how fucking proud I was that the truck would carry it, I took a pic to show how the truck looked with that much load and how it still had plenty of suspension left.

Oh, to the guy who is hauling a pallet of shingles in a half ton, I call BS lol.

 

I've had about 1300 lbs. in mine a year ago, 40 bags of steer manure blend, @ around 35 lbs. per bag. Handled fine driving around 120 miles home, slower over hills, mpg was still over 20 doing 55 to 60. Did not check if my springs were sad. However, this Spring cutting firewood, the springs were definitely sad. Here is a partial load of Doug Fir which did nothing to the springs.
Duane

 

No one is really arguing the point of your post, I understood your reasoning behind the post and I am not in anyway saying otherwise, lots of people don’t know how much their truck can comfortably tow/haul, I think it’s definetly helpful for people to see what the truck can handle without feeling the need to mod like you said.... However I simply questioned the weight sir, it just didn’t seem to me like that added up to the “750lbs” from where I’m standing.

My second comment was related to a previous poster about weight on an F150 which was kind of unrelated to your post of the Tacoma.... anyhow carry on

 

I think your estimate of those pavers at 11-12lbs is way low. I'd be surprised if they were less than 25 a piece, probably closer to 30.

 

Wasn’t a full pallet, forget how many bundles were on the pallet. We took some off also but when the fork truck dropped them in the weight on the lift said over 1400lbs. Home Depot made me sign a waiver before they put them it stating they weren’t responsible if anything happened. Said they had a few guys break leafs doing it. I only had a 4 mike hike and didn’t no more than 45 home. Mostly 30 threw the city. Like I said, the frontier was on the bump stops. My f150 had plenty of room with the same payload of shingles in it, skid half full of 60lb cement bags and broken concrete. The point here is you can go over payload and gross ratings. Your truck isn’t going to blow up or not move. Just like the tundra pulling the space shuttle. It was way over the ratings, but guess what? It was on wheels and moved it very slowly. Obviously you couldn’t pull that thing down the highway doing 55mph with it but hopefully you get my point

 

Miss my eco boost so bad. Pulled those loads with ease. I was doing 60 with that weight in the bed almost like it was nothing. I also had 5,500lbs of landscape blocks on my buddies car trailer. Don’t remember the size or the weight of the trailer but it was like towing around a small yard trailer. In the Tacoma I would of been way over the ratings, and I know it would struggle a bit even if it wasn’t. No way in hell would I even be comfortable doing it in this truck. The Tacoma didn’t even feel too smooth grabbing my toolbox from work with a small uhaul trailer.

 

Every trucks payload is going to be somewhat different. Many of them have the same GCWR, which is the max weight of the truck and cargo, but because of differences in options the actual payload will be somewhat different. There is a sticker on the drivers door or door jamb. My 07 DC 4X4 has a payload of 1200 lbs. A 4X2 truck without the 4X4 running gear will have a little higher payload as would an Access cab or regular cab.

I wouldn't be surprised at most Tacoma's hauling 1000 lbs with ease. That is going to be well within the specs for most trucks.

But a Tacoma ain't a half ton. Most of those will have 1700 lb payloads at a minimum. Depending on equipment some are over 2400 lbs. Double what my Tacoma is rated for.

 

My OR has a payload rating of exactly 1,000 lbs as per door jamb sticker. I'm sure it would haul 2,000 ok if I had to. Toyota engineers designed it for 1,000 lbs for whatever reason. My guess is that reason isn't the springs or bed strength, or sag, but probably how a truck would react in emergency situations doing 60-70 mph with more than 1,000 lbs in the bed.