What did you do to your Raptor today? (Gen2)

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I had to pick up 65 bags of concrete this weekend...rented a home depot truck which, surprisingly, could only hold 40 bags before the alarm went off. The last 25 I split between the Raptor and my wife's X3...I'm ashamed to admit that my wife's baby SUV has a higher payload rating lol...I still put most of it in the truck in a display of dominance

Simple solution: Build the raptor up to the point that you need a super duty to tow the raptor. I put 25, 40 lb bags of mexican beach pebbles in my SD yesterday and the carli leafs barely sagged at all. :cool:
 

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I had to pick up 65 bags of concrete this weekend...rented a home depot truck which, surprisingly, could only hold 40 bags before the alarm went off. The last 25 I split between the Raptor and my wife's X3...I'm ashamed to admit that my wife's baby SUV has a higher payload rating lol...I still put most of it in the truck in a display of dominance

Do the HD trucks have an overload alarm? I never heard of that before.
 

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The HD trucks have a payload warning alarm to prevent them from being 'overloaded'. Put the truck in gear and the alarm goes off!
 

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The HD trucks have a payload warning alarm to prevent them from being 'overloaded'. Put the truck in gear and the alarm goes off!
Frightening that it waits until you’re loaded and ready to go.
 

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Do the HD trucks have an overload alarm? I never heard of that before.

Yep, like SoxFan said...alarm to avoid overloading...they said it would take 50bags with the pallet (doesn’t make mathematical sense with 3000lb load capacity). They put it on with a forklift then the alarm was going off until I got down to 40 bags and physically pulled up on the back of the truck. Went off again when I got in the truck, but turned off when I put it in drive. Employees just laughed and waved goodbye.
 

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The HD trucks have a payload warning alarm to prevent them from being 'overloaded'. Put the truck in gear and the alarm goes off!

Really. Since when. News to me. I know from the factory they sure don't have anything like that. Must be an after market weight system added after purchase.

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The HD trucks have a payload warning alarm to prevent them from being 'overloaded'. Put the truck in gear and the alarm goes off!
I never knew that was something that existed.

Yep, like SoxFan said...alarm to avoid overloading...they said it would take 50bags with the pallet (doesn’t make mathematical sense with 3000lb load capacity). They put it on with a forklift then the alarm was going off until I got down to 40 bags and physically pulled up on the back of the truck. Went off again when I got in the truck, but turned off when I put it in drive. Employees just laughed and waved goodbye.

It makes sense, especially on a rental. I love that the employees laughed and let you go anyway. Reminds me of a return flight I was boarding from Bonaire and most of us were making the metal detector go off. The police staff just half smiled and waved us all through as the detector was going off!
 
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