Weighing for side to side weights
If I weigh my truck and trailer (2017 F350 srw 6.7 and 2003 Alpenlite Portofino Villa) with one side of all axles on the scales and one side of all the axles off and then do the same with the other si...
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>>I've read on rv forums how a trailer had one wheel several hundred lbs different than the one in front or behind it. I asked my DOT guy who carries portables how this could happen. His comment was that it could have been a bad reading or a multi axle trailers side links may have got flipped at the equalizer bars or the truck or trailers brakes were locked up with the tow vehicles auto tranny still in drive or reverse. Good scale reading comes from tranny in neutral with no brakes applied.<<
I no longer have my weigh sheets, but seeing different weights on axles next to each other was common. Weight transfer from front to back or back to front is easy depending on how level the rig is. Or how the trailer was designed or built. What someone is carrying or where that stuff might be and move weight too. If a truck squats and the trailer noses down the weights can and do transfer forward. As for the scale having poles to center the rigs on the scale, that was what I was told by the fellow working on the scales.Is it accurate? Maybe not, I had no reason to doubt him as that was something he worked on and I did not. I do know I was not able to get correct readings when I side stepped the scale. Getting a repeatable scale reading is what is important, knowing where the weights are and how your rig is carrying them is what you need to know. Folks with scales that weigh rv's can attest to the varing amounts of weights axles can and do carry. Getting weighed opens many peoples eyes as to why tires fail, rigs handle poorly or "feel" heavy.
I no longer have my weigh sheets, but seeing different weights on axles next to each other was common. Weight transfer from front to back or back to front is easy depending on how level the rig is. Or how the trailer was designed or built. What someone is carrying or where that stuff might be and move weight too. If a truck squats and the trailer noses down the weights can and do transfer forward. As for the scale having poles to center the rigs on the scale, that was what I was told by the fellow working on the scales.Is it accurate? Maybe not, I had no reason to doubt him as that was something he worked on and I did not. I do know I was not able to get correct readings when I side stepped the scale. Getting a repeatable scale reading is what is important, knowing where the weights are and how your rig is carrying them is what you need to know. Folks with scales that weigh rv's can attest to the varing amounts of weights axles can and do carry. Getting weighed opens many peoples eyes as to why tires fail, rigs handle poorly or "feel" heavy.
