About CanMyTruckCarry.com

A few years ago I was helping my brother tear out his lawn. We loaded up his homemade trailer with the excavated sod and soil — more than we realized — and somewhere down the road the trailer gave out under the weight. Nobody got hurt, but it was a wake-up call. We had no idea how much that load actually weighed, and we never stopped to check whether the trailer could handle it.

That incident stuck with me. Overloading a truck or trailer is one of those things that seems fine right up until it isn't — a blown tire, a snapped axle, or worse. Most people haul building materials without ever doing the math, because the math is genuinely tedious. How much does a yard of topsoil weigh? How many bags of concrete can my F-150 handle? I found myself looking this up constantly, doing mental arithmetic in a landscape yard parking lot.

So I built CanMyTruckCarry.com to make that calculation instant. Select your truck, pick your material, enter a quantity — and you immediately know whether you're within your payload rating or pushing your luck. I don't want anyone else to learn this lesson the hard way.

Weight figures on this site are industry-average estimates. Actual weights vary by moisture content, supplier, and product specification. Payload ratings are manufacturer-published figures for specific truck configurations — your door-jamb sticker is the authoritative number for your vehicle.