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juzplanekrazy
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Sep 13, 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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Glen_Schumann
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Apr 17, 2011
DW-gray wrote:

GVWR will always be more the combined weight of the front and rear GAWR. I've never seen the combined weight of the front and rear GAWR more than the GVWR.


I believe this is not correct. See the third line of a photo of my weight label:




GAWR allows for extra wieght on one axle as long as you stay below GVWR (for a snow plow for instance). I have never seen a label where the total GAWR equaled the GVWR.

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