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Originally Posted by dkoldman
My issue right now is that I am smart enough to know what exceeds means, but a novice when it comes to interpreting practicality of an absolute cutoff within 1.8% tolerance. i.e. Is the RV owner that is towing 22,999lbs really safer than the one towing 23, 199lbs? My worse case is 420lbs over (1.8%) but I can get it lower if truly necessary. But if someone tells me that EVEN towing GCW = 22,800lbs I guess game over.
.......... so I can say I am being safe not necessarily know if it really is any safer?
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IMHO towing 500 lbs (2%) lighter may make you safer, but the GCWR limit is not a finite dividing line between safe and unsafe.
As an aside piece of information, a couple of the major pickup truck manufacturers recently lowered GVWR and GCWR on vehicles already in the hands of customers. So if what they were towing/hauling before was withing limits, but now that same tow/load exceeds the limits, are they now unsafe? When before they were safe?
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