Easy decision to make. Check your state laws and see where you can get in trouble for being overweight. And yes, they can stop and scale a pickup that's heavy loaded and or pulling a trailer. They will go by the manufacturers stated max gross. There was a traffic accident mentioned not long ago the resulted in a fatality. Guy lost control of a pickup with a goose neck on it. Had a backhoe on the trailer. 3/4 ton truck. The driver is going to be charge with vehicular manslaughter. You know this guy is going to be convicted because he was overweight. Basically if you get in an accident of any type except you getting rear ended and you are overweight the lawyers are going to have a field day with you.
As other posters have said it isn't how much you can pull. It's how much you can stop when the vehicle in front slams on it's brakes or one pulls out in front of you.
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