Tow Truck Weight Limits

[Thomas Kirkman]

I have searched everywhere, but can't find what the maximum suggested tow weight is for each tow truck. Could anyone shed some light on that please.

In my experience, the Dory is OK for LESS than 5 tons and the Puilo LESS than 10 tons. What about the rest of them. Also, this should be listed as part of the specifications for other vehicles as well.

Thank you.

[marzman]

I wanted to try the 5t Tanker Trailer (6 tons) with the Dory (can't afford a semi yet)

[Pheex]

You can see your winch weight limit in the garage.

That said, this is the flat lifting weight, and you need less to simply tilt a small vehicle and you can get away with punching above the weight limit as long as you lever the wreck on the floor and don't dead lift it fully above the ground. It also depends how your vehicle is angled (except the Golima Rotator) since you can tip your vehicle if positioned incorrectly but can get away with heavy lifts if positioned properly, or even use scenery to stabilize and prevent tipping. You can also increase the weight of your vehicle with various parts to make it more stable.

[Thomas Kirkman]

Originally posted by Pheex:

You can see your winch weight limit in the garage.

That said, this is the flat lifting weight, and you need less to simply tilt a small vehicle and you can get away with punching above the weight limit as long as you lever the wreck on the floor and don't dead lift it fully above the ground. It also depends how your vehicle is angled (except the Golima Rotator) since you can tip your vehicle if positioned incorrectly but can get away with heavy lifts if positioned properly, or even use scenery to stabilize and prevent tipping. You can also increase the weight of your vehicle with various parts to make it more stable.

One, you can up the winch weight limit by purchasing a larger winch, but that does not equate to heavier tows. Additionally, the tow bar is what tows the vehicle. Just because I can lift it, doesn't mean I can tow it. The first time out, I grabbed a 5 ton tow with the Dory. It picked it up, but the front wheels were off the ground just trying to lighten the load.

[Pheex]

Originally posted by Thomas Kirkman:

Originally posted by Pheex:

You can see your winch weight limit in the garage.

That said, this is the flat lifting weight, and you need less to simply tilt a small vehicle and you can get away with punching above the weight limit as long as you lever the wreck on the floor and don't dead lift it fully above the ground. It also depends how your vehicle is angled (except the Golima Rotator) since you can tip your vehicle if positioned incorrectly but can get away with heavy lifts if positioned properly, or even use scenery to stabilize and prevent tipping. You can also increase the weight of your vehicle with various parts to make it more stable.

One, you can up the winch weight limit by purchasing a larger winch, but that does not equate to heavier tows. Additionally, the tow bar is what tows the vehicle. Just because I can lift it, doesn't mean I can tow it. The first time out, I grabbed a 5 ton tow with the Dory. It picked it up, but the front wheels were off the ground just trying to lighten the load.

Ah apologies, I misread and thought you meant the crane winch lifting weight.

You probably know this looking at your playtime but if you look on the map at a towing site, you will see the tonnage and the color on the numbers indicates if it's a likely fit for your vehicle. Green being easy, white 'fair', yellow 'maybe' and red probably impossible.

On what factors it calculates this I have no idea though. If it's just winch, or winch and crane, if it takes into account vehicle weight, engine power and torque, weight distribution, tire grip, rainy conditions on the roads and what have you. I generally find that yellow will tip the vehicle like you described, but you can still get a good tow off if you keep the client's front wheels on the ground instead of lifting, and keeping the pressure a bit off' your own rear axles. You will have to fight the steering but at slow speeds it's manageable.

A more precise indicator would be great, but I think it's mostly guesstimates from experience right now together with the indicator color on the map. I can already see people raging on the forums when a truck can statistically pull x ton car but people try to tow it up an incline in the rain and wonder why the statistics are wrong and the game is lying to them. The amount of factors that dictate if you can tow something in the situation in the field is almost impossible to precisely show, including how much you lever the vehicle on your tow bar. The indicator is the best we get for now I imagine.

[Thomas Kirkman]

Yes, I am aware of the "Color Coded Tonnage", however it doesn't seem to be that accurate. My Brutus tows a red 13 ton load with no issues. I just thought someone might have had first hand knowledge of the maximum tonnage per vehicle, having used all the different wreckers.

Thanks for all the replies. And here again, that sort of information would be handing in the Specifications of the vehicle.

[Rickenbacker]

Yeah, would be nice to have some kind of indication of max towing weight... I tried a job with more than 10 tons with my Pulio last night, and while it was possible, it wasn't fun - no brakes to speak of and not much steering. :)

[Pheex]

Yeah generally I go by this rule:

Pulio max 5 tons
Brute max 10 tons
Rota 10-20+ tons

Ofc this is very flexible depending on components, weather terrain and all that.
Like yeah you can pull 10 t with pulio but it isn't very fun or smooth.

Just like Brute can have trouble with 8 ton plus, but can do fine if you just lift barely above ground and switch to 4WD, and with very heavy tows lift the light part of the vehicle so you can lever the heavy part of the vehicle on it's own axles. So for example with a 12 ton truck just lift the light rear and not the 10 ton cabin with the engine.

[TheeMan]

If you go on map with the markers on it, each tow display weight and the color changes when you in a tow truck.

Just pointing that out to help support anyone else saying it.

I'm guessing though white to yellow your truck can handle but if its red it can't handle it at all.

If its yellow it might handle it but have trouble along the way.

the color seems to be pretty right what it comes down to though is how you handle a tow, if you do something right anything can happen if you work at it and think outside the box any tow truck can handle any tow as long you do it the right "way" of thinking outside the box.

I created a train of tow trucks to tow with the dory tow truck to get an 10t tow before.
Took 5 tow trucks though and with little help along the way.