Dangerous Towing idiots

Think this was just a stunt??  Just to get a pic?

NOBODY can be THAT dumb can they?

 I've seen pickups pulling camper, pulling a large boat on I-29 between Omaha, Ne and Sioux City heading for the Iowa lakes or the reservoirs on Missouri River in S. D.  

 And in July & August you see the pickups pulling camper and a trailer loaded with motorcycles on behind on I-29.  Expensive outfits; figuring an over $100,000 pickup, over $100,000 camper, $15,000 trailer and 4 x $40,000 bikes. Over $350,000 in vacation toys. 

skechy report but in Texas, someone decide to pass a 'superload' (160 TON pipe) on the shoulder. he lost.

BTW up here, anyone with basic license can drive a 'school bus',modeified for just 4 seats and no sign on it !!!

   This is why I've retired from daily commercial driving and limit my highway travels otherwise. No one seems to have any common sense or courtesy any more. 

There's insufficient clarity of the photos posted to determine the lug nut count or tire size, but I know my F450 service trucks well... my team's fleet consisted of 8 F450's starting with 2003, all the way up to 2019... and yes, one COULD get an F450 with a pickup body, as we changed out our entire fleet every two years, or after ONE of the trucks hit 100,000mi.  After we removed our service bodies, our F450's were fitted with dually pickup bodies and sold to construction contractors and RV'ers.

From these photos, it's clear it's a Crew Cab, and a DRW.  Let's assume it IS an F350, and while I don't know the year, most of the specs don't change much year-to-year (except the introduction of the aluminum body, which reduced tare, thus yielding a higher capacity at same GVWR).  As an example, I looked up the 2019 specs sheet, which lists the F350 Crew Cab as a 14,000gvwr truck, and advertises it's payload capacity as 6550 (for the 4wd) and 6970lbs (Rwd)... the difference clearly being that the 4wd version had an extra 450lbs or so of driveline to lug around.  That boat weighs under 2100lbs, so there's a whole lot of load room left.

Towing capacity is expressed in Gross Combined Weight, and nothing else.  It doesn't matter if the entirety of the load is in draft, or distributed to the vehicle, it is part of the full combination.  In a 5th wheel application, a significant portion of the load is borne upon the tow vehicle, just like a semi-tractor, and when that hitch is placed slightly forward of the rear axle, the towed load is proportioned onto the front, as well as rear axle.  When a bumper hitch is used, the tongue load bears well BEHIND the drive axle, and the result is a higher axle load than the actual tongue load (because it is now an overhanging load) and also, the steer axle is reduced... lifted up.

In the case of this setup, the 5th wheel dolly acts just like a heavy-haul 'booster', carrying a significant amount of tongue load, but keeping a little on the hitch to assure stable tracking.

Gross Combined Weight Rating for the F350 goes all the way up to 31,300lbs.  There's no reason to suspect this rig exceeds the truck's GCWR.

It is a legal configuration in many states, and I've weighed plenty of them.

re: just wanna know how high the bow of the boat is.

Hopefully less than 13'6" if in Ontario !!!!

I see that all the time on the Parkway.

That is more than likely a professional delivery guy for a big camper and boat sales company.

It is definitely not just some consumer individual trying to get attention.

I see them quite often with a boat/trailer loaded thus and three trailers in tow, either camper trailers or boat trailers or a mix.

I have been asked several times to bring my F350 and join them, but I had much rather do my long-hauling in a big truck, W900 or 379.

That is not to say that, if funds were low and things were tight, I wouldn't hook up and go.