How much weight can a stock OR hold in the bed?

Don't forget to read the fine print. The payload capacity is nothing but the GVWR minus curb weight.

So your payload capacity is your weight, passenger weight, gear and cargo etc

 

50 cases of beer

 

That's just a "conservative" number

 

Hey it's me, your best friend!

 

Nice. I hauled 18,000 lbs of dark matter in mine and no issues.

 

I asked for 1/2 ton of gravel and the guy put a full ton (~2000lbs) in the back of my reg cab 4x2 4 cylinder taco. I was doing 65 mph for about 20 mins on the freeway. Held up. Probably pushed the limits to the max though.

 

This guy hauled an entire boulder

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/this-is-why-you-need-a-softopper.597358/#post-20038831

 

An old thread but heres something I picked up and drove 20 miles going 50mph...

1200lbs of sand.

 

The /real/ question is how much squat can you tolerate?

 

Had around a yard in my bed.( guy who was loading said that was a yard, some TW say otherwise)
I only felt it when braking. Was about 45 min trip on a windy and up/down highway. Handled it great as always.

I have a sport tho , stiffer suspension.

Good luck man!

 

No offence to previous posters but lots of threads say a load and then mention how fast they went. Overloading a vehicles suspension and then talking about going highway speed on a smooth highway only proves that the truck can handle pulling the rolling weight. It's exactly like towing a trailer with an unusually high tongue weight. The truck can pull the load, but the rear suspension is now outside of the comfort zone. The real enemies are irregular weird bumps like rough roads, rolled curbs, speed bumps, etc. Hitting roughness at speed is bad too but speed is not the trigger, it's roughness. Running overweight in the bed runs the risk of cracking leaf springs when the truck rolls side to side going over a weird bump. Hit a big bump on a crappy highway at speed and you can have the same result but I have seen broken leaf springs at Home Depot before people even left the parking lot. A set of active bumpstops is relatively cheap insurance for the occasional heavy load to help your springs.

 

This is definitely the case. The truck’ll hold a bunch. How it handles after is key.

 

The real question is how much load can the brakes, steering, suspension, and drive train handle?