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Pre-Travel Information
How Overloading Affects
Your RV & Tires
The results of overloading can have serious consequences
for passenger safety. Too much weight on your vehicle’s sus-
pension system can cause spring, shock absorber, or brake
failure, handling or steering problems, irregular tire wear,
tire failure or other damage. An overloaded vehicle is hard
to drive and hard to stop. In cases of serious overloading,
brakes can fail completely, particularly on steep hills.
The load a tire will carry safely is a combination of the size
of tire, its load range, and corresponding inflation pressure.
Excessive loads and/or under-inflation cause tire overloading
and, as a result, abnormal tire flexing occurs. This situation
can generate an excessive amount of heat within the tire.
Excessive heat may lead to tire failure.
It is the air pressure that enables a tire to support the load,
so proper inflation is critical. Since RVs can be configured
and loaded in many ways, air pressures must be determined
from actual loads (determined by weighing) and taken from
the load and inflation tables provided by the tire manufactur-
er. These air pressures may differ from those found on the
certification label. However, they should never exceed the
tire limitation for load or air pressure. If you discover that your
tires cannot support the actual weights, the load will need to
be lightened.
Steps for determining correct load limit
1. Locate the statement “The weight of cargo should never
exceed XXX KG or XXX LBS” on your RV’s Cargo Carry-
ing Capacity label.
2. This figure equals the available amount of cargo and lug-
gage load capacity.
Determine the combined weight of luggage and cargo being
loaded on the RV. That weight may not safely exceed the
available cargo and luggage load capacity.
If the total weight of the
RV exceeds the GVWR,
the trailer is overloaded.
Operating your RV while
exceeding the specified
weight ratings increases
the risk of a crash,
personal injury and death.
It is necessary to remove
payload (equipment, water,
personal belongings, etc.)
until the total weight of the
RV no longer exceeds the
GVWR before operating
the RV.
If the weight on the trailer
axles exceeds the GAWR,
the axles are overloaded.
Operating your RV while
exceeding the specified
weight ratings increases
the risk of a crash, personal
injury and death.
It is necessary to remove
or rearrange payload
(equipment, personal
belongings, water, etc.)
until the axle weight no
longer exceeds the GAWR
before operating the unit.
Not operating your RV
within the designed weight
ratings can damage your
recreational vehicle which
is not covered under
warranty.
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