Well today i had to pick up some flooring for my house and the guy told me that it was about 500lbs in total which was pretty close to my max payload with me and my wife about 1100lbs which i wernt to worried about. The guy loaded the flooring and the truck squatted down quite a bit but no more than i thought it would. Had about 2.5" between the bump stops and axle with was close but truck drove home fine and handled the load really well. But get this, The dam load was much much more than 600lbs. I ended up weighing one of the boxes and in total it was 1300lb of flooring on it's own . Had nearly 1900lbs of payload. I can say that im pretty darn impressed with how well the truck drove. It was as if it wernt in there. truck also had zero problem stopping. Journey was about 50 miles.

Empty AND LOADED PICS

 

When I put about 800lbs in the back it feels so much better driving.

BTW your second pic is in reverse lol.

 

I can tell you now that it's the smoothest she has been since i had her lol. But i at least know her limits now. I reversed the pic so that they were both in same direction

 

the truck is more than able to haul that much weight its just with theis crew cab are so heavy which makes them closer to the gov set weight rateings,causeing lower payload numbers

im a floor installer, and i know that a f150 can haul way more than is listed, since i been their

 

Your Platinum is capable of way more then what Ford rated it for. My '04 is rated at 1300 lbs payload and two years ago I hauled 2-1 yard loads of 3/4 crush gravel.

1 yard of gravel = about 2500 lbs. The bucket on the Bobcat was about 3/4 yard. The guy dumped one full bucket plus just under half of a second bucket to give me a yard. I actually had about 1 1/4 yard in my truck which was closer to 2800 lbs.


The bump stops were about half an inch from the axle and apart from the nose being high I couldn't feel the weight when I drove. I wouldn't want to haul like that on a regular basis, but it's good to know I can when I need to.

 

Hauled a lil over 5000 lbs in my bed already, of concrete block in my 09 f150 standard cab long bed with no problems at all, it was low in the rear but not even close to dragging or rubbing the tires got up to speeds of 55 mph for a few miles and no squirrelys or nothing brakes were fine. its all just for safety they tell you your payload so they cant be reliable in the event of an accident. wouldnt normally do this to a brand new truck but was a real tight time for a job and basically had no other choice. but i can say i was glad that i did it so I can say that I am damn proud of this truck