In your day-to-day activities with your car or truck, how much weight it can safely handle probably rarely crosses your mind. However, if you're loading up the back of your truck for a big move, ...

Whether you’re towing a trailer or hauling a load in your truck bed, knowing how much weight your vehicle can handle is essential. Overloading your car, truck, or SUV can damage the axles, ...

So, you want to buy a new truck for your next adventure, and all you really care about is the towing capacity. After all, you're planning to tow some equipment, or a wave runner, or maybe you want to ...

Engineers are a precise bunch, and as such, the names they give to measurements are also precise and often explain exactly what they entail. At least in terms engineers can understand. But for us ...

There's a lot of confusion when it comes to some of the common acronyms used to describe a vehicle's towing and hauling abilities. Let's break down the differences between gross vehicle weight rating ...

Have you ever wondered what all those letters and numbers mean on the door tag of your pickup truck? Have you ever overloaded your vehicle so that the rear axle was touching the bump stops? How do you ...

Companies with vehicle certification responsibilities are familiar with chassis gross vehicle weight ratings (GVWR) and gross axle weight ratings (GAWR), and their importance in the labeling portion ...

Payload is how much weight a vehicle can carry in passengers and cargo. Many view payload only in terms of how much cargo a vehicle can carry, as in, “My pickup can haul 1,600 pounds of firewood.” ...

Trucks are big, we all know that. But some trucks are larger than others, and when a fully-loaded semi roars down the highway, you can feel the rumble from hundreds of yards away. With the exception ...

Commercial vehicle (GVWR Class 3-8) registrations in the United States during the first nine months of 2010 were 269,650 units, up 9.6 percent over the same period last year, according to Polk, a ...

If you've heard or read terms like "subcompact," "mid-size," and "large" bandied about for various cars and found yourself at times wondering what, exactly, puts any given car into one of those ...