CAT Scale weights are confusing me.
Weighted my truck and trailer Friday, before we went on a weekend camping trip. The trailer is brand new. It had never been out camping before. My WDH is the Blue OX Sway Pro. With 1k bars. I...
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jadatis wrote:
Maximum allowed tonge-weight in America is as far a I know 15% so this 15.5% would not give problems when weighed by police , I think.
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America has no "maximum allowed" tongue weight.- at least non that I have ever heard of. In fact, there are NO recreational vehicle regulations or laws pertaining to tongue weight at all or even axle weights as far as I know. Any axle weight regulations that pertain to commercial vehicles would apply to any RV trailer also but are so high that no RV currently made could exceed them and are therefore irrelevant.
The only "laws" that could apply here are physics. If you do not have enough tongue weight the stability of the trailer is compromised. The general rule of thumb in America is around 15% but it is not a "law".
See this video for a good demonstration (got video from another post).
Barney
Maximum allowed tonge-weight in America is as far a I know 15% so this 15.5% would not give problems when weighed by police , I think.
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America has no "maximum allowed" tongue weight.- at least non that I have ever heard of. In fact, there are NO recreational vehicle regulations or laws pertaining to tongue weight at all or even axle weights as far as I know. Any axle weight regulations that pertain to commercial vehicles would apply to any RV trailer also but are so high that no RV currently made could exceed them and are therefore irrelevant.
The only "laws" that could apply here are physics. If you do not have enough tongue weight the stability of the trailer is compromised. The general rule of thumb in America is around 15% but it is not a "law".
See this video for a good demonstration (got video from another post).
Barney
