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Old 01-14-2015, 12:39 PM   #12
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Re: GVW Body Tag info. & Question

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Originally Posted by Keith Seymore View Post
19,500 GVW is HUGE!

The highest GVW I could find in the literature was 18,000 lbs for a grain body type truck.

By way of comparison, most of the one ton crew cab dually pickups during the squarebody era ('73 -87 ish) were 10,000 to 11,000 GVW.

https://www.gmheritagecenter.com/doc...2nd-Series.pdf

K
That would be a six yard dump truck chassis. Or similar size farm truck.
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