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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Trailers may have brakes rated at axle rating and so may Semi's but pickups do not have brakes related to axle ratings.
Case in point is the larger front brakes on modern pickups with lower AWR than the rear axle. Pikups rate their brakes on the GVWR and generally overshoot on the HD pickups.
Look at the 2010 and 2015 Ram DRW trucks. The 2015 has a higher FAWR/RAWR/GVWR and the brakes didn't change.
Ram 4500/5500 use the same brakes front and rear with vastly different axle ratings.
Even trailers are subject to variation. Al-Ko uses the same brakes from 5200-7000 and even on some of their 8000lb axles. So does a 8K axle have 5200lb brakes or a 5200lb axle have 8K brakes? Or is it just the brakes they use?
Case in point is the larger front brakes on modern pickups with lower AWR than the rear axle. Pikups rate their brakes on the GVWR and generally overshoot on the HD pickups.
Look at the 2010 and 2015 Ram DRW trucks. The 2015 has a higher FAWR/RAWR/GVWR and the brakes didn't change.
Ram 4500/5500 use the same brakes front and rear with vastly different axle ratings.
Even trailers are subject to variation. Al-Ko uses the same brakes from 5200-7000 and even on some of their 8000lb axles. So does a 8K axle have 5200lb brakes or a 5200lb axle have 8K brakes? Or is it just the brakes they use?
