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mdamerell
Mar 22, 2014Explorer
1st I'm surprised they used 10% since the rule of thumb is 10-15%. 15% of 12,900# is 1935#.
You need to weight truck and trailer together and then weight just the truck to get our real numbers. You can't go on what it use to weight. Your WD hitch will also move so weight up onto the steer axle.
Normally the TW listed is dry weight. If you divide 1318# by 8692# = 15.16% ratio. Your gross of 12,900# times 15.16% gives an approximate 1956# TW at GVWR on trailer.
You need to weight truck and trailer together and then weight just the truck to get our real numbers. You can't go on what it use to weight. Your WD hitch will also move so weight up onto the steer axle.
Normally the TW listed is dry weight. If you divide 1318# by 8692# = 15.16% ratio. Your gross of 12,900# times 15.16% gives an approximate 1956# TW at GVWR on trailer.
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