What does it mean when a vehicle is considered a half-ton truck? What does that mean for total capacity and how does that equate to towing power?

In our post on truck payload capacities ... If you come across an older (early 90s) GM 2500 - normally a 3/4-ton designation - and see 6 lugs, it?s not a true 3/4-ton truck.

Half-ton trucks had around 1,000 pounds of payload ... evidenced by its 2,260-pound maximum payload capacity with the 2.7-liter TurboMax four-cylinder engine under the hood. In its most capable ...

three-quarter-ton and one-ton trucks and everyone’s like ‘Ah, it’s still over payload.’ But then you also see a contractor’s truck that’s twice as much over payload and has 150,000 ...