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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Terryallan wrote:ScottG wrote:
Just read about this in some mag recently..(TL?) According to that article, the trucks tow ratings include it's ability to stop what ever weight of trailer it is rated for. They do this so if the trailer brakes fail, the truck can still safely stop it.
Seems reasonable.
IF that were so. Every truck pulling a trailer on the road would be over loaded. The truck's brakes are only rated to stop the truck's GVWR, Not the GCVWR.
And again if that were so. Trailer brakes would not be required by the DOT. And the folks who make brake controllers would go out of business.
You'll note that I did not say the write-up suggested that the trucks brakes replace the trailers brakes - only that it must be able to stop the combined load IF the trailers brakes fail.
The problem with this thread is no one (including me) has quoted and authoritative source for their opinion and this is as much of a SAE spec. as it is a DOT matter.
