Leaving payload in the bed overnight?

I have to leave very early tomorrow morning to get to a place with a bunch of stuff. I loaded it tonight so I can leave ASAP in the morning....

I didnt think about if this could damage or .... mess up my leaf springs having a load in there overnight. You guys think itll be fine?

Thanks!

 

Unless the your truck is bottomed out for days, you'll be fine. People drive cross country with everything they own with no problems.

 

Yea I guess that makes sense.... its only probably like... 800lbs.... but the back is definitely squatting a little bit. just didnt want it to permanetly squat the leafs if its like that for like 12-14hrs....

 

It's less stress on the leaf springs sitting with the payload than driving with it, so you're good.

 

awesome. good to hear. I am not going to make a habit of keeping it loaded overnight, but good to know it shouldnt mess anything up.

Thanks!

 

If you're truly worried, jack the hitch up a little. If no hitch, then don't worry. Bouncing on the road is far worse.

 

repeated load-unload cycles is what wears springs out.

loading them doesn't damage anything unless it's exceeding the capacity of the springs.

 

left 2,000+lbs in the back overnight. Drove 30 miles to SF early next morning. Not saying it was smart, but it happened. Still have the same leaf springs.

 

i dare say... that may be overloaded.

and there's no way that's 2000 pounds of concrete. your truck wouldn't move with a ton in the back, at least not without damage

 

I had well over the weight limit that needed to be left in bed overnight. Put a jack under the hitch and lifted it load off. Came out in the AM and jack had sunk about an inch into the ground....

 

OH ITS OVERLOADED lol. I wasn’t smart. It was like 25 or 30 80lbs bags of mix, plus maybe 50lbs of tools.

 

That’s not a bad idea.

 

i was going by what I saw in the photo.

everything come out OK? or did you bend an axle or something?

 

I’m sure that the leafs are toast. But it seems the oem leafs wear out pretty quick regardless. that picture was about 80,000 miles ago and haven’t had any issues. It was VERY scary to drive. 0/10 would not recommend to a friend.

it was for work and I was kind of forced into the situation. I should have said no, but I was naive.

 

I’d be more worried about axles than leaf springs at this point. Toyota axles are not made for loads like that. Wonder if there is any rear wobble after that?

 

I still wonder that. I have take off studder that I’m assuming is driveshaft related, no issues at higher speeds.

 

absolutely agreed. I have some of those heavy duty dakars on the back and still wave off stupid loads.

some of my git 'er done friends will tell me it's fine "because I got them heavy duty springs"
but I don't got them heavy duty axles. or u-joints. or diff.

 

There are some things that I'd rather just spend the 30 bucks to rent a trailer. ^^^ a pallet of ready-mix qualifies as one of those things.

 

A tech at Toyota even told me to not exceed 1,000lbs in the bed of my 3rd gen. So far 900lbs was my max with HD Dakars and that felt more than enough

 

Second this. Drove cross country from Michigan to Arizona with all my belongings in my bed. 3 day trip.