Blazer/Jimmy vehicle GVW and GVWR

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Originally Posted by Keith Seymore

At the risk of being simplistic: If you’ve weighed your truck you know what your specific truck weighs. To me that’s far more helpful than mining generic data from the Internet.

K

Knowing the actual weight of my truck(GVW) is only half the equation. I need to find out what the maximum weight (GVWR) is which is set by the manufacturer so that I can find out what I'm really looking for, how much weight I can put in it.
Thanks for the links. It has an example of a Blazer having a GVWR of 5300 LBS and a curb weight (GVW) of 3990 LBS. This means that this particular truck can be loaded with 1310 LBS of cargo (fuel, passengers, etc...)
My truck weighs 4820 LBS, and if I have the same GVWR of 5300LBS like the example in the link, that would mean that I could only put 480 LBS in my truck. If that's the case, then I would legally be overloaded with 2 people in it and a full tank of fuel. This makes no sense and that's what I'm trying to figure out.