Total weight is up, but volume is not, and for most people volume is far more important because they aren't trying to put a full pallet of concrete in the back.

Total weight is up, but volume is not, and for most people volume is far more important because they aren't trying to put a full pallet of concrete in the back. The weight capacity of basic 90s and '00s trucks were already enough to fill it solid 3 feet thick of stacked wet treated lumber.