Choosing between single and tandem axle configurations affects everything from purchase price to safety on the highway — a decision that matters whether you're a weekend hauler in Illinois or a ...

Truck adverts display various towing numbers across the screen. Most of these numbers are incomprehensible, while in certain situations, the figures don’t mean what drivers think. Knowing your truck's ...

Wayne and Wendy are a traveling couple with a bit of a secret: they built what you see before you today with under $13K. It’s a complete traveling home, built out of a cargo trailer, equipped to ...

At first glance, towing capacity seems easy to determine. Your car or truck can tow a certain amount of weight, and if you exceed that weight, you’re putting yourself and your vehicle at risk.

As with ancient hieroglyphics, a pickup truck’s payload metrics can seem indecipherable; a language of numerical values lost to time. There’s GVWR, GCVWR, payload and towing rates, not to mention all ...

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.” ...

Payload capacity (the actual amount of cargo you can carry) is calculated by subtracting the trailer's empty weight from its GVWR. For example, a trailer with a 7,000-pound GVWR that weighs 1,500 ...