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juzplanekrazy
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Sep 12, 2007

Whats Your Real Weights? Truck and Trailer. The Real Deal

I don’t know if it’s been done before or not but I was thinking about keeping a running list of real truck weights by year and type, and trailer weights by brand, size and what the total combined weig...
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sirdrakejr
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Aug 07, 2010
You are correct. The trailer weight is the total MINUS the pin weight for the wheel's weight. If the pin weighs about 1600# and the wheel weight is 6980, the the total trailer weight will be the total of the two: 8580#.

Sounds about right to me and the truck should handle that well. You also need to weigh the truck with everything EXCEPT the trailer on it. Then you will have the true figures for the trailer and truck separately.
Frank

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