Weight at a truck stop

mtrumpet wrote:

fcooper wrote:
Here's what I did several years ago, but I think it still applies at most truck stops.

Drive your rig onto the scales. You will probably find 3 scale platforms. Get your front axle on the forward platform, your rear coach wheels on the middle platform, and the toad (if attached) on the rear platform. Find the intercom on the pole at driver side of scale (positioned so driver can reach it from the cab). Push the button and when answered tell them you are a private motorhome to be weighed. When they tell you to come in and pay drive off, park, and pay. If the scale platforms are level with the surrounding pavement and you want individual wheel position weights, tell them you want a reweigh when you pay for the first weight. Drive back on the scale with only one side of the unit on the scales and repeat the process. The reweigh is a minimum charge. With these results you can calculate your individual wheel position weights.

This only works if the scale platform is level with the surrounding pavement, and there is no barrier to prevent positioning the coach appropriate for weighing only one side.

Fred

I always have a broom stick or similar ready, in order to reach the intercom button on the pole. Have never been able to reach it by arm from my drivers window.

You can always get out and push the button by hand. They almost never line up with a coach window.

They usually ask "first weigh, re-weigh" real fast sounds like Chinese take-out. :) First weigh. Then "Company?" say private, "unit number" use your favorite one. They will say ok. Park, head in and ask for a scale ticket Unit number whatever you told them. $10 at CAT scales at FJ/Pilot.