Yes. Working load limits are sized against vehicle weight, and a loaded full-size can weigh double what a midsize build does. Rate straps, shackles, and anchor points off your truck's real loaded weight — with margin — not its brochure curb weight. Gear that was plenty for your last truck can be the weak link on this one.

Tire volume. Tall, wide tires hold far more air than the tires most portable compressors were designed around, so fill times stretch and budget units overheat halfway through the job. The fixes are a high-output compressor wired to the battery, or CO2 — a Power Tank fills big tires fast with no duty cycle to wait out, traded against refilling the bottle between trips.

Yes — towing capacity and payload are different numbers, and payload is the one your build spends. Bumpers, armor, drawers, a tent, water, fuel, and passengers all count against it, and a generous rating disappears faster than you'd expect. Add the build up on paper first; the scale at the truck stop is a humbling second opinion.

Run the year, make, and model filter first — it does most of the work. Then watch the details a filter can't see: cab configuration and bed length change what fits, and trim levels change wiring and panels. The fitment notes on each product page catch those exceptions, so read them before checkout on anything that bolts on.

Traction boards, a shovel, an air system, and rated recovery points front and rear — roughly in that order. Boards plus airing down solve most solo stucks with no second vehicle involved, and the heavier the truck, the more that matters, because hand-digging three tons out of sand is a full afternoon. A winch comes after those basics, not before.