vehicle weight ration to trailer weight?
I'm looking at my cat scale receipt from this month .All is good but the gross weight is 21460 the trailer axles is 10420 combined the steer axle and drive axle is 11040.I have more weight on th...
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AH64ID wrote:Terryallan wrote:Golden_HVAC wrote:
So your truck is about 600 pounds heavier than the trailer that it is towing. You are concerned?
Most big rigs have a 20,000 pound truck towing a 60,000 pound trailer!
Fred.
True, BUT. Once the 60k trailer is hooked to the 20k truck. the truck is carrying about 1/2 of the weight of the trailer. So it becomes a 50k truck towing a 30k trailer.
No it doesn't. It is still a 20K lb truck, and the trailer is still "responcible" for stopping its own 60K lbs.
Just becuase there is weight of the trailer on the TV doesn't mean he trailer is lighter. TV stops the TV and trailer stops the trailer.
Disagree as it applies to 18 wheelers we were referring to. You really don't think the 8 trailer wheels will stop the 60K trailer. Especially when they are only carrying 30,000 lb of the weight. They will stop that 30k. But the other 30k will be stopped by the 8 drive wheels it is riding on. That is the way road tractors are designed. You really can't expect 8 wheels to be responsible for 60 K, and 10 wheels to only be responsible for 20 K.
The trailer wheels will stop the weight they are carrying.
