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That payload includes fuel and passengers. And it must assume you'll be on the bump stops because you'll hit the bump stops long before you hit 1400#.
 
I don't recommend it but sometimes you just do what you have to do. Yesterday I drove about a little over an our to pick up some retaining wall blocks that I wife had bought from somebody on Facebook. She thought there were about 56 of them. They weight 22.5 lbs. each so that would have been 1260 lbs. I figured that would max out my '18 TRD off-road but figured I would do it anyway. When I got there, there were about 90 blocks instead of 56. I started loading them up. I managed to get them all on the truck but needless to say, it was a bit weighted down. I had about 2,000 lbs on it. So I headed home. It was really sagged in the rear but I never felt it hit the stops. Power was no issue but it was WAY light on the front end. Still, I manage to drive about 55 MPH once I got used to it and made it home fine. Got them unloaded and everything seems fine. Don't know that I would do it again though.
 
Freebird said:
I don't recommend it but sometimes you just do what you have to do. Yesterday I drove about a little over an our to pick up some retaining wall blocks that I wife had bought from somebody on Facebook. She thought there were about 56 of them. They weight 22.5 lbs. each so that would have been 1260 lbs. I figured that would max out my '18 TRD off-road but figured I would do it anyway. When I got there, there were about 90 blocks instead of 56. I started loading them up. I managed to get them all on the truck but needless to say, it was a bit weighted down. I had about 2,000 lbs on it. So I headed home. It was really sagged in the rear but I never felt it hit the stops. Power was no issue but it was WAY light on the front end. Still, I manage to drive about 55 MPH once I got used to it and made it home fine. Got them unloaded and everything seems fine. Don't know that I would do it again though.
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It was probably on the stops the whole time and flexing the tires. I say that because my tacoma with just a topper on it is on the stops most of the time.

-M
 
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