What trim for max payload

I see Toyota advertising upwards of 1900 lbs payload for the Gen 3’s but then all of the door stickers I see say 1380 lbs or so. Are there any gen 3 trims that actually get close to say 1500 lbs (or more) according to the sticker?

 

2022 sr5 4x4 dc 6.5' bed and door sticker is 1550.

 

Yeah I'm interested in the same thing. I'm thinking about buying a Tundra to be my overland camping rig with a 500 lb. camper. But not sure there's enough payload capacity to carry the camper plus all the other stuff I want to take for an extended trip.

 

Same here. 500 lbs dry tongue weight. I’m figuring in another 150 for the battery, propane and other items in the pass through. Would be nice to have 1000lbs payload left. I don’t want to jump to a HD truck for a “smallish” camper.

 

Maybe a 2wd SR double cab with 5.5 bed and zero accessories. That is way advertising works. The payloads with all these crew cabs when you throw in steps, bed toppers and few other frequent accessories is quite low. If you add lifts and big e load tires your family of 4 may need to go on Ozempic for a while. If you are buying the higher $ trims I would give a 2500 a look. Prices for some of them are softening if you value capability and not as concerned with automatic nose pickers and vibrating butt massage seats

 

I like the Sierra 2500 but have read a lot about GMC truck issues with lifters and such. Would be nice to have that much capacity though.

 

Looks like Cummins has joined the misfits at VW and some others in cheating the Emissions!

Does "Big 3" mean 3 billion dollars in fines?

https://tfltruck.com/2023/12/breaki...960000-ram-hd-trucks-pays-1-675-billion-fine/

Time to go EV all the way!

 

I have an Ez-go MPT golf cart with more payload capacity than these trucks do and it doesn't care if you overload it. I can't understand why a full size tundra can't match a golf cart for payload. It's embarrassing. If you put 4 adults in the truck and a few 100lb of gear in the bed, you are basically at capacity. So you can't put cargo in the bed AND carry people without overloading/maxing the shit out of it. It's so misleading whatever the number on the door. Rant over

 

I'm not talking about towing, read the post

And don't be sorry. You bought a gen 3 that hasn't broke down yet, good for you.
But you're much closer than you think to max Payload. 500# on the hitch with a 7000# trailer, adults ( 2 American adults - approx 400lbs) and 200-300# of gear and cargo is 1100 -1200# which is more than most tundras Payload capacities are rated for. I have a Platinum CM with a spray bed liner and some mods that put me around 950# Payload capacity... Not Towing capacity.. Payload capacity (any weight added to the vehicle deducts from the starting number). So only a select new Tundras have 1300-1500# raw weight capacity, and my golf cart can handle 1200# all day long. Just making a simple analogy of these trucks not being much more than a glorified golf cart, not trying to bring down a 3rd gen thread... Lighten up Francis.

 

There appears to be some improvements over the previous generation when it comes to payload. I am. pretty sure that the SR5 TRD will give you close to 1,500 lbs. I believe that includes a driver and some gas. Some owners are actually measuring the weight of the truck and subtracting that from the GVW to get a number that is a bit higher. Granted, the extras do take a bite out of the payload. I have a 6.5' bed Crewmax Limited so my published payload is 1,390 lbs and I expect that this would go up by a few hundred pounds if I actually weighed the truck.

I do think that these payload numbers are under the capacity of the truck. And that might be the strategy of Toyota to prevent premature wearing of parts which will only mean negative reviews about the truck in general. In the end it doesn't make sense to have a towing capacity of 11,000 lbs and only have a payload of 1,390 lbs. It is pretty hard to get that to work out if you have any passengers or stuff in the truck.

If Toyota made a golf cart, I sure it would have a 200 lbs payload rating!

 

This might be a silly question but does the longer bed increase or decrease payload? Assuming the rest is the same. Seems like the longer bed should increase payload but the added weight might decrease payload.

 

Wrong movie but whatever... You missed the whole point.
And don't call me Shirley

 

You would think that the 6.5' bed would lower the payload but it doesn't seem to make much difference. Then add the weight of the hybrid and that doesn't seem to make much difference either. Toyota just seems to adjust the upper number so the payload is the around the same range. Euro's should be lighter and have a much better payload but he only gets an extra 110 lbs over my packed/fattened Limited Crewmax?? The brochure says ~1,900 lbs but the stickers all seem to be about 1,400 to 1,500 lbs.

Lot's of marketing pressure to get these numbers where they are. I mean why would they sell a Capstone with a trailer back up assist and cut the payload to 900 lbs?? If you are looking at an SR or a Capstone, you don't want to have payload be a deciding factor. So let's make them all close and take that out of the equation. I could be way off here but maybe not??