Pickup truck towing standard isn't standard

[Crossbones Dennis]

www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130211/OEM03/302119913/pickup-truck-towing-standard-isnt-standard

Automakers often brag about the towing abilities of their pickups, encouraging shoppers to believe that their vehicles could safely pull almost anything.

The towing claims are effective, moving heavy metal in the single most profitable product segment in the auto industry.

They are also highly dubious. All but one pickup manufacturer refuse to follow standardized towing-capacity tests they all agreed four years ago to adopt for 2013 models -- test procedures that would lower the towing capacity ratings they now claim.

[saimon1232]

whar are this

[bartc]

My 2006 chevy 3500 died in Atlanta last month, on the way home from Florida pulling a load of horses. It was a good truck for many years.

I bought a used 2018 Ford F350 Crew cab dullie with a 6.7 diesel. This thing is a hauling machine.

I was hauling about 13,000 lbs. It went up and over the mountains in Tennessee with ease.