I stopped for diesel yesterday at a truck stop in Santa Maria, ca. It's just off the 101 freeway at betteravia road. After asking, I drove on the scales, they guided me forward a bit, and in one shot they told me front axle, rear axle and weight of toad. DW and I grabbed some snacks in the store and bugged out. I don't know why I waited so long to do it.36ft expedition DP fully loaded.

That will tell you if you have an overweight axel, but not if you are overweight on a wheel on that axel. You need to weigh all wheels independently. Once done, inflate all tires on the same axel to the manufactures tire chart for the load you have on the worse wheel. Usually 5 to 10 pounds extra is added to be safe.

Congratulations! At least you now know the TRUE weight of your coach, each axle and the weight of your toad....were there any surprises?:h..was the weight what you expected? Close to it?....We weigh ours every couple months or so...quick, easy and only about $10 bucks...IMHO, money well spent....weighing four corners will tell you if you're overloaded on a corner but it's more expensive and difficult to find someone to do it. You now have more information than you had yesterday and more than a lot of folks on this forum have on their rigs..thanks for sharing your experience.....Dennis

Great information to know! Everyone insists that we should really know all four corner weights of our motorhomes but I found (like many) that most places such as Flying J. Pilot and Love's can't handle the request for four corner weighing.Last summer while traveling through Iowa we stopped for dinner in a small town. Right across the street was a grain elevator with scale for the grain trucks. It was closed for the evening. Unlike the scales at truck stops this one did not have any tire railing around it - it was ground level flush all the way around - and the digital scale readout was active! So after dinner we pulled right over and weighed all for corners. Great information to have! Learned the slide and propane tank on the driver side added considerable weight to the front left - much more than I expected.Next time your traveling on non-interstate highways visit a small town with a grain elevator. If they're not busy they would probably enjoy weighing something different!

Thanks for the feedback. Executive, I didn't know what to expect but was worried I was over weight. I have wanted to properly air the tires as was mentioned by Hoosier, so this will help with tire pressures and inspiration to declutter stuff I don't really need to haul around. Seems I'm a bit overweight.

Now that the Canadian Dollar has dipped to 90 Cents US ,Our American Friends are invited Up to Canada.You will find that most of Our Highway Weigh Scales are Left turned on 24/7 and Are Free!They are also usually set up to make multiple passes that allow weighing all four corners!Come up save money and drive safe!

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Executive45
Explorer III
Jan 24, 2014
Congratulations! At least you now know the TRUE weight of your coach, each axle and the weight of your toad....were there any surprises?:h..was the weight what you expected? Close to it?....

We weigh ours every couple months or so...quick, easy and only about $10 bucks...IMHO, money well spent....weighing four corners will tell you if you're overloaded on a corner but it's more expensive and difficult to find someone to do it.

You now have more information than you had yesterday and more than a lot of folks on this forum have on their rigs..thanks for sharing your experience.....Dennis
Hoosier_Cruiser
Explorer
Jan 24, 2014
That will tell you if you have an overweight axel, but not if you are overweight on a wheel on that axel. You need to weigh all wheels independently. Once done, inflate all tires on the same axel to the manufactures tire chart for the load you have on the worse wheel. Usually 5 to 10 pounds extra is added to be safe.

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