Texas Weight Registration - Diesel Forum

MikeB · 07-05-2007, 11:31 PM

I have just moved into the Houston area from Louisiana. What should the weight numbers be for my truck? My wife registered the truck and the papers say something like empty - 4,000 and cargo-1,000 gross-5,000. I am pretty sure that this is not right, but I wanted to know what it should be before I pursued this any further.

The truck is a 2002 F-350 CrewCab LWB, Dually, PSD.

Oh, our Toyota Sequoia shows a empty weight of 3,200.

Thanks for the help

EXCAV8TER · 07-05-2007, 11:38 PM

You will register it for whatever the title says...unless you WANT to register it for more and pay more..
Tom

Flywheel · 07-06-2007, 12:59 AM

Check your tirle - but it should be 8800GVWR, aroun 7200 curb, so 1600 payload.

arisley · 07-06-2007, 09:08 AM

As long as it has tags on it I don't care what it is. In Arlington, TX they still us 1/2 ton 3/4 ton 1 ton classifications. When the lady behind the counter asked for my weight I just said "somewhere between 185 and 195". Walked out with tags.

SmokeyWren · 07-06-2007, 10:38 AM

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It doesn't matter as long as you use it for personal or farm use only. If you decide to use it for commercial purposes or interstate commerce, then it might make a difference, but I doubt it as long as you have a pickup bed on it.

My registration says 6,000 empty and 1,500 payload, and the type vehicle is truck, equal to or less than one ton. Maybe if you had an F-250 regular-cab gasser with no options, it might weigh as little as 6,000 empty. But mine weighed 6,920 empty. Add me and Darling Wife and a few tools and our net payload is close to 1,500, so that part isn't too far off.