My comment about tire size and weight load capacity for the RA comes from the Ford owners's manual. My 2002 F350 PS crew cab is factory equipped with 265/75 R16 tires. Sure you can mount the 265s on your dually rims and axle, but the sidewalls between tires will rub on each other when fully loaded and make for very short tire life. Sure you may be able to put bigger tires than original, and may get by with loading the RA heavier than factory spec, but you do risk early failure of some part of the truck.
Personally I do not care how much you overload your truck, but I do care about safety and long life, so I try hard to keep within factory specs. Besides, with an overloaded dually you are DOT bait, because you will be over the 10,000# figure that gives them the legal right to harass you and charge whatever their local enforcement guy wants to charge. Last summer in this area, they were stopping every dually PU pulling long horse trailers (and other gooseneck trailers), and weighing every wheel with portable scales. They claimed that if you ever sold a horse or a bale of hay, you were driving a commercial rig and needed to meet all the DOT requirements. My SRW F350 is rated at 9,950#, and pulling a trailer I am allowed to have a total gross weight of 26,000# before DOT regs have to be met. With RV plates on the trailer, it is exempt from the weight rules. The DOT enforcement here has been real nasty, our local city has 2 full time squads to harass trucks because that generates huge revenue (published figure in hundreds of thousands of $$).
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