Haul Gauge??

ShinerBock wrote:

4x4ord wrote:
I don't drive over the scales when I'm hauling with my pick up. I stopped once about 30 years ago and went in the office to see if they cared whether I stopped or not. I was told they are interested in our little trucks.

Things are different in every state/region so you can't really apply what happens in your region to everywhere else. In Texas, if you have a commercial DOT number on your door, you have to stop.

Here are the laws in other regions and states.

WEIGH STATIONS LAWS

I am not sure how accurate this is. Or is this for personal vehicles? Here is what they say about Mighigan:

"MICHIGAN
The following vehicles must stop: (1) vehicles with dual rear wheels transporting agricultural products; (2) trucks over 10,000 lbs. with dual rear wheels and/or towing construction equipment; (3) all tractor/semitrailer combination vehicles."


Because the company I am working at stop in srw one tons with DOT numbers not towing.

4x4ord wrote:

shum02 wrote:

ShinerBock wrote:

4x4ord wrote:
I don't drive over the scales when I'm hauling with my pick up. I stopped once about 30 years ago and went in the office to see if they cared whether I stopped or not. I was told they are interested in our little trucks.

Things are different in every state/region so you can't really apply what happens in your region to everywhere else. In Texas, if you have a commercial DOT number on your door, you have to stop.

Here are the laws in other regions and states.

WEIGH STATIONS LAWS

I keep telling RV puller's here in Ontario all the time about that about 3/4 and 1 ton trucks but internet lore always makes them paranoid....

The letter of the law is not necessarily what is practiced. For instance I was recently on the island of Maui and anyone driving the speed limit would be considered a nuisance. According to the law I should stop with my little truck but like I said the officers told me they are not interested in policing little pickup trucks.

I understand that. I am just saying how it is here. I had to deal with many hot shot drivers when I worked on the dealership level. We contracted them out to deliver parts to the oilfield and many of my customers used them to deliver between terminals. I even became friends with a few of them.

Here they have to stop at weight stations and even fill out log books so they are on a time crunch. So if they pick up a pallet of drums at my location and then get a call to pick up another load somewhere else before heading out 400 miles away and were nowhere near a CAT station to find out if they still had enough weight left to be legal, this would help them out a lot. Trust me, these small Texas towns will be more than happy to enforce weight laws on a commercial truck.

How many hot shot drivers do you know in Texas that say they do not have to stop at weight stations or abide by weight laws?

shum02 wrote:

ShinerBock wrote:

4x4ord wrote:
I don't drive over the scales when I'm hauling with my pick up. I stopped once about 30 years ago and went in the office to see if they cared whether I stopped or not. I was told they are interested in our little trucks.

Things are different in every state/region so you can't really apply what happens in your region to everywhere else. In Texas, if you have a commercial DOT number on your door, you have to stop.

Here are the laws in other regions and states.

WEIGH STATIONS LAWS

I keep telling RV puller's here in Ontario all the time about that about 3/4 and 1 ton trucks but internet lore always makes them paranoid....

The letter of the law is not necessarily what is practiced. For instance I was recently on the island of Maui and anyone driving the speed limit would be considered a nuisance. According to the law I should stop with my little truck but like I said the officers told me they are not interested in policing little pickup trucks.

ShinerBock wrote:

4x4ord wrote:
I don't drive over the scales when I'm hauling with my pick up. I stopped once about 30 years ago and went in the office to see if they cared whether I stopped or not. I was told they are interested in our little trucks.

Things are different in every state/region so you can't really apply what happens in your region to everywhere else. In Texas, if you have a commercial DOT number on your door, you have to stop.

Here are the laws in other regions and states.

WEIGH STATIONS LAWS

I keep telling RV puller's here in Ontario all the time about that about 3/4 and 1 ton trucks but internet lore always makes them paranoid....

4x4ord wrote:
I don't drive over the scales when I'm hauling with my pick up. I stopped once about 30 years ago and went in the office to see if they cared whether I stopped or not. I was told they are interested in our little trucks.

Things are different in every state/region so you can't really apply what happens in your region to everywhere else. In Texas, if you have a commercial DOT number on your door, you have to stop.

Here are the laws in other regions and states.

WEIGH STATIONS LAWS

Farmerkev wrote:
A WD hitch changes the angles so the tongue weight is wrong.
Load in bed can be in the front or rear, once again payload wrong.
30 mph tail or headwind changes acceleration and torque so once again, wrong.
For that matter just a camper versus a lowboy trailer pull different even weighing the same.

On the WD angle thing, I'm not an engineer so I'll have to just trust those that are on that. But I also questioned the headwind/tailwind thing in my head and read carefully on the website how this thing works. It measures torque converter slip as the vehicle accelerates through 15 mph in first gear. I imagine it compares this with acceleration rate, and further compares it with the empty vehicle value obtained during calibration. This should be accurate, since at 15 mph wind effect is negligible. The difference between high and low profile trailers at that speed should be almost nothing. At higher speeds of course that's a different story.

Someone just needs to buy it and test it. If my truck didn't have a manual transmission I would.

I don't drive over the scales when I'm hauling with my pick up. I stopped once about 30 years ago and went in the office to see if they cared whether I stopped or not. I was told they are interested in our little trucks.

4x4ord wrote:

FishOnOne wrote:
Now you got me wanting one of these....

I'm curious as to why anyone would want one of these? I can't imagine doing anything of any practical use with one.

I can think of a few hot shot drivers that would find this useful. It would keep them from having to go to the scales all the time after every pick up. Then there are those "go by the numbers" types that like to abide by all of the manufacturers numbers. There seem to be quite a few here and on some other forums.

Through the magic of technology, the Haul Gauge video was waiting in my Facebook this morning. The video shows the Haul Gauge estimating just under 11k pounds, and then the CAT scale weighing 10680.

Amazing that I had never heard of this, and the video was waiting this morning.

FishOnOne wrote:
Now you got me wanting one of these....

I'm curious as to why anyone would want one of these? I can't imagine doing anything of any practical use with one.