I have an 06 f350 SRW with the 6.0 crew cab and long bed. How much weight can i have in the bed? I need to move quite a bit of sand and need to know what can go in the bed. thanks a lot!

 

depends on how far your going/how fast your driving/ how comfortable you are with really working your truck. a guy came into where i work and hauled out a ton in his honda ridgeline. in that thing you can probably fit whatever it is you need to move.

 

well im looking at about 5-6k lbs of sand, mostly highway, and its a truck i dont mind workin in

 

How far would you haul that load? I think Ford lists max payload of a dually at like 4500 lbs, although I know it could do more.

 

about 200 miles. i had 3k lbs in my f150 once and it only had an add a leaf, i wouldnt do that again tho

 

I've hauled a 8' box full of sand in my F150 standard payload without any issue. Although, the stock tires wanted to pop... stupid cheap Hankooks. With my new tires, I doubt there would be any issues.

So a F350 wouldn't flinch...

 

The limiting factor will be your tires. If you have Load Range E tires with 65 psi in them, then you should be alright.

 

i have the stock michelins, i need to check that. my 150 had bfg at/ko's which are E

 

Are you sure you're at Ft Belvoir, I thought that was an Army post?

Only a Marine would move 6,000 pounds of sand 200 miles.

 

that's a lot of weight and if you have a blow out you'll have to unload it in order to be able to jack the truck up...

 

2006 F350 SRW 172.4 WB w/o snow plow option

w/17" wheels:
4x2 = 3900 lbs
4x4 = 3800 lbs

w/18 or 20" wheels:
4x2 = 4200 lbs
4x4 = 4000 lbs

 

thanks a lot guys for the help, its actually going to only be about 20 miles now so im happy

 

Yup...

 

well we had a 99 7.3 crew cab longbed 2wd and we put a total of 6821 lbs on the back and it was NOT a dually. We got about 16 mpgs and we drove over 200 miles

 

You will be perfectly fine with 5000 or even 6000 lbs, just make sure that you have the tires up to their max psi.

Here is a picture of my F150 with roughly 2.2 -2.4 cu yds of sand in the bed, which calculates to somewhere in the neighborhood of 6000lbs (+/- a couple hundred lbs). I had the tires aired to their max (load range D) and air the Ride-Rites up to 100psi, in the picture there is only 40 psi in the bags. I only had to take it about a mile to a buddies house to unload it.