I've loaded the bed up twice one day filled with landscaping stones, the tumbled brick ones. I have no idea how much it weighed, but my guess is north of 2500 pounds. They were stacked neatly and were a little higher than the bed rails, front to back, side to side. That was interesting but not really that bad IMO. I drive big trucks so I have alot more stories with them.

 

Because it's almost 18 years old and has a lower weight rating than my F150? It has been a plow truck all it's life and had to deal with the abuse that comes with that.

It has the factory springs on the back still and after all this time they aren't all that strong. I had to have the front springs replaced last Friday because it could no longer support the weight of the plow on it.

It's just a little tailgate salter, it only weighs about 80 pounds so I can easily remove it by my self from the truck if I wanted to. Opening the tailgate though is quite difficult because the mechanism on the inside is all rusted.