load capacity

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   Thank you for the quick reply. After I read this for a while I might be able to understand it a little at a time. Thankfully the husband has a grasp of such. I may be tossing things out of the pod (when we do get it home) before I even start loading.  About the time I THINK I am getting a handle on it something else pops up and I am back where I started.  But all this helps so much

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mountain mist Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 25 May 2010 Location: Gatlinburg Tenn Online Status: Offline Posts: 426	Topic: load capacity Posted: 31 May 2010 at 12:32am
	Thank you for the quick reply. After I read this for a while I might be able to understand it a little at a time. Thankfully the husband has a grasp of such. I may be tossing things out of the pod (when we do get it home) before I even start loading. About the time I THINK I am getting a handle on it something else pops up and I am back where I started. But all this helps so much

techntrek Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group - pHp Joined: 29 Jul 2009 Location: MD Online Status: Offline Posts: 9062	Posted: 30 May 2010 at 11:11pm
	Usually the load capacity includes a full tank of gas and the driver, so you start at 1060 and start subtracting any passengers and the load you stick in the back of the truck. Don't forget to subtract the tongue weight of the 'pod, because that counts as load on the tow vehicle. Don't confuse this with the towing capacity of the vehicle, that is a separate number which counts against everthing you put in the 'pod plus the 'pod itself. Then there is the gross combined weight rating. That is the maximum weight of the tow vehicle with load, and the 'pod with its load.
	Doug ~ '10 171 (2009-2015) ~ 2008 Salem ~ Pod instruction manual

mountain mist Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 25 May 2010 Location: Gatlinburg Tenn Online Status: Offline Posts: 426	Posted: 30 May 2010 at 8:20pm
	I have a question, let me see if I can ask it with any intelligence.I have a new 171 with a load capacity of 1060lbs. I will be towing with a Ford Edge with factory installed tow. That part I have the numbers on. But it has been called to my attention that the 1060 lbs. INCLUDES the 2 people in it when it is unhitched and in use. I have been listing and weighting like a crazy person, only to have this brought up! I know I don't have to travel with 300 lbs of water and if I am hooked up it will not have the weight of the grey and black water. Thank you ahead of time for some help I hope a lot of you are OUT using your r.pod.