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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Also added up the WDH engaged 3 weights and so total weight must be typing error.
But this explanes the large difference of 100 lbs it gave between WDH engaged and disengaged, now its only 40 lbs difference, because of measuring differences of scale, and not 100.
GVWR is in rule always less then the GAWR's added up, and this is to allow some weightshifting between the axles.
For TV this means that you can still put some more load to front or back without overloading one of the axles, but in practice if loaded to GVWR, mostly rear axle is at its GAWR or even a bit overloaded, and front is way below GAWR, by the way you can load a car( space for load only at rear even behind rear axle, and towbar)
For tandem-axle Trailer, like you have, the hight of the towbar influences the weightdivision between the axles.
If your towbar is higher placed then average, it lifts up the front axle of trailer, so larger part of total weight on rear axle and front axle less, and the other way around.
Then if realy loaded Trailer to 6500 lbs, the weights on axles can be , 3500 lbs on rear axle and only 3000 on front axle.
Lower towbar is the other way around.
This differce in towbar hight happens when WDH engaged and disengaged, so if you would also have weighed the Trailer axles seperately, you would have notice next.
WDH disengaged> towbar lower> Loaddivision F+/R-.
WDH engaged > towbar higher> loaddivision F-/R+.
For axles only counts the total axle weight max allowed so GAWR,
but for pressure advice-advice you have to be ware.
Then even for that the crossed weightdivision between axles, is not important , only highest axle-end counts for setting the pressure, because rule is to give both sides on the axle the same presssure.
Also added up the WDH engaged 3 weights and so total weight must be typing error.
But this explanes the large difference of 100 lbs it gave between WDH engaged and disengaged, now its only 40 lbs difference, because of measuring differences of scale, and not 100.
GVWR is in rule always less then the GAWR's added up, and this is to allow some weightshifting between the axles.
For TV this means that you can still put some more load to front or back without overloading one of the axles, but in practice if loaded to GVWR, mostly rear axle is at its GAWR or even a bit overloaded, and front is way below GAWR, by the way you can load a car( space for load only at rear even behind rear axle, and towbar)
For tandem-axle Trailer, like you have, the hight of the towbar influences the weightdivision between the axles.
If your towbar is higher placed then average, it lifts up the front axle of trailer, so larger part of total weight on rear axle and front axle less, and the other way around.
Then if realy loaded Trailer to 6500 lbs, the weights on axles can be , 3500 lbs on rear axle and only 3000 on front axle.
Lower towbar is the other way around.
This differce in towbar hight happens when WDH engaged and disengaged, so if you would also have weighed the Trailer axles seperately, you would have notice next.
WDH disengaged> towbar lower> Loaddivision F+/R-.
WDH engaged > towbar higher> loaddivision F-/R+.
For axles only counts the total axle weight max allowed so GAWR,
but for pressure advice-advice you have to be ware.
Then even for that the crossed weightdivision between axles, is not important , only highest axle-end counts for setting the pressure, because rule is to give both sides on the axle the same presssure.
