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:
Manufactures of LD and HD pickups make different claims about what their brakes are rated for, but it really is here nor there as axle weight rating isn't a legally binding rating in any state that I familiar with.
DOT doesn't care about axle ratings they care about tires and registration, as long as your under 20K per axle.
Where do you think dot will get tire load numbers from on different size vehicles ??
Registration ??
My and other states have no weight registration for our private use trucks. Like a truck makers GVWR...its another meaningless number for determining axle/tire load limits. We simply carry weight up the lessor of a steer or drive axle or the trailers axle(s). My dot guys say they don't care how much weight a out of state truck carries on its registration form ...... it still can't exceed the lessor of the trucks axle tire load ratings with out a permit.
My point here is about brake ratings and where those numbers come from according to NHTSA and other sources I mentioned in my reply above.
