About TruckTally

TruckTally is an independent reference for American truck specifications — towing capacity, payload, bolt patterns, tire fitment and recall history. It exists because these numbers are published every year by manufacturers and regulators, and then buried in 40-page PDFs organised by axle ratio, which is how a question with a documented answer ends up being argued about in a forum thread from 2016.

What we cover today

• 16 vehicles in the lookup, from half-ton pickups to three-quarter-ton and mid-size trucks
• 21 model years of towing, payload and GCWR figures broken out by individual engine
• 110 model years of NHTSA data — 24,030 owner complaints and 729 recall campaigns, aggregated by component
• 3 models with full generation-level wheel and tire specifications

Coverage is uneven on purpose, and we say so on every page. Complaint and recall data is pulled automatically from the federal database, so it covers everything. Towing and wheel figures are transcribed by hand from manufacturer guides, which is slow, so that coverage is deeper but narrower. The finder tells you exactly what exists for your truck rather than sending you to an empty page.

How we work

Three rules the site holds itself to:

• Name the source. Every towing figure cites the manufacturer publication it came from. Every complaint figure cites NHTSA.
• Never quote a rating without its configuration. An advertised maximum belongs to one specific cab, bed, drivetrain and axle ratio. Publishing the headline number alone is the exact failure we set out to fix.
• Say when something is a calculation, not a specification. Tire diameters and speedometer error are computed from public formulas. The rubbing assessment is a screening heuristic, and the page says so.

The methodology page goes through each data source in detail, including what it does and does not cover.

Corrections

If a figure here disagrees with the certification label in your door jamb, your door jamb is right and we want to know. Owner corrections are the most valuable feedback we get, because you have the truck in front of you and we have a table. Tell us what is wrong and the fix flows through to every page built from that data.

How this site makes money

We intend to fund TruckTally with display advertising. No advertiser has any influence over the figures we publish, we do not take payment to list or omit a vehicle, and we do not accept sponsored posts or paid links in the data. If that ever changes it will be disclosed here first.

Independence

Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Stellantis, Toyota, Nissan, Honda, or any other manufacturer. Product names and model designations are trademarks of their respective owners and are used here for identification only.

Your data

There are no accounts and no tracking. The “my garage” feature stores trucks in your browser's local storage and nothing else leaves your device. See the privacy policy for the specifics, including what happens when you decode a VIN.