You can way overload about any of them for low speed and short distances. What happens, though, when you hit 70 on the freeway with your bumper 6" off the ground?
Wasn't my point. The rated payload on those old coil spring C10s was far below what it is on today's halftons. Only mentioned those two incidents to illustrate that it
would tote far more than intended and often did.
It often spent weeks on end loaded to the hilt with a 5500W generator, gas cans, numerous heavy power tools, HD 50 and 100 foot extension cords, saw horses, cartons of nails, sledge hammers, digging irons, etc. Everything a five or six man crew needed everyday.
If we were building a house out in the boonies with no electricity available yet, it made five trips a week carrying the generator and all that stuff.
Sometimes up to a 60 mile round trip per day and yep, on an Interstate at times. Not with the bumper 6" off'n the ground, but often with it within a foot of the pavement.
Six ply bias tires all around, even though it was only a C10. Originally put a pair on the front - 'cause the truck had no power steering. Fixed that! Reshod the back ones with six ply mudders.
I would estimate the normal daily payload as high as a half ton and over 1500 pounds often.
Easily that much when we had the tow behind air compressor on the job, because then there were also cartons of Paslode nails, the guns and several hundred feet of air hose (the old red rubber coated stuff, not the lightweight hoses we have now), in addition to all the other schit mentioned.
