{"id":15974,"date":"2012-11-14T09:12:36","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T14:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=15974"},"modified":"2016-09-18T21:50:37","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T18:50:37","slug":"the-importance-of-gcvwr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/the-importance-of-gcvwr\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of GCVWR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few people have expressed concern that my Ford Ranger is too heavy to tow behind my class C motorhome.<\/p>\n<p>At about 13,500lbs, my RV is well within its GVWR (gross vehicle weight rating) of 14,050lbs. But what about my GCVWR, or gross combined vehicle weight rating, which limits how much I can tow?<\/p>\n<p>The GCVWR on my rig is a ridiculous 25,000lbs! That means that even if my rig was at its maximum GVWR, I could tow something weighing 10,000lbs!<\/p>\n<p>My Ford Ranger weighs about 3,500lbs (at most).<\/p>\n<p>So my rig is just below its GVWR (by about 550lbs) and well below its GCVWR (by about 8,000lbs). I am not even remotely overloaded.<\/p>\n<p>While I am sure the extra weight will affect handling and fuel efficiency, my RV will do just fine towing my Ford Ranger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few people have expressed concern that my Ford Ranger is too heavy to tow behind my class C motorhome. At about 13,500lbs, my RV is well within its GVWR (gross vehicle weight rating) of 14,050lbs. But what about my GCVWR, or gross combined vehicle weight rating, which limits how much I can tow? The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}