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Hello, dolly, goodbye, axle overloads! New way to shoulder big payloads.

hortly after our long-term Ram 2500 Cummins test truck arrived, I did what manufacturers assume all truck owners will eventually do: I overloaded it. I needed two 3,880-pound pallets of cement to build a seawall. Each one, centered over the truck’s rear axle, exceeded the gross axle weight rating by about 1,150 pounds and the gross vehicle

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