That couple hundred pounds still doesn't mean much. Corporations typically conduct their full size truck real time testing in their laboratories at or above GVW, especially 3/4 ton trucks and up. These tests duplicate up to 400000 miles of very severe customer usage, and includes vertical pothole strikes, severe braking events, wide open throttles, severe lateral turns, all at full payload or above for much of the entire test duration. Sorry I can't be more specific, but much of this type of information quickly becomes confidential. No, it's not a fudge factor, but more of a designed in safety factor by over testing the product. JMO
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