Haul Gauge??

Who the he!! is Mobely? Not John Mobely from the Broncos, right? He was a stout dude, throw off the haul gauge!

Doesn't anyone just change the stations on the radio anymore?
Fark, I'm behind the times again, thats the trouble growing up back in the 70s and 80s, never caught onto the new fangled stuff....lol

" A device like this has great potential. "

Maybe if you're into the tech or theory of it, then it's an interesting piece of technology.
But after the cell phone thread, y'all should be shooting this down like the plague!
Gonna have a buncha old farts crashing their campers into school busses full of choir children because the black tank is almost full and just reduced the tongue weight by 50lbs....60lbs....140lbs....-10lbs....(that's from the sht sloshing around if you're going uphill or downhill...) uh oh, momma must have stored the crock pot in the front storage, we're too heavy now, pull over!
Can you say distracted driving?

Boomerweps wrote:
We used the same systems and logic to get to the moon & back and to pinpoint dropping weapons from space after launching them using a missile from underwater! All using a known start point and measuring velocities to be gained or lessened. The components only get smaller.

I just ordered in one for my birthday. If it works as advertised, I can be better aware of all my weights. The only time I CAT Scaled my "rig", I was over weight on my TV RAWR and my TT GAWR. I removed a lot of weight from both TT & TV but I want to try to stay within my ratings. I let you know how it goes by next weekend, it's due in early in the week. Whenever I get a chance to compare the readings to scales this summer, I will.

Please post your results. A device like this has great potential.

We used the same systems and logic to get to the moon & back and to pinpoint dropping weapons from space after launching them using a missile from underwater! All using a known start point and measuring velocities to be gained or lessened. The components only get smaller.

I just ordered in one for my birthday. If it works as advertised, I can be better aware of all my weights. The only time I CAT Scaled my "rig", I was over weight on my TV RAWR and my TT GAWR. I removed a lot of weight from both TT & TV but I want to try to stay within my ratings. I let you know how it goes by next weekend, it's due in early in the week. Whenever I get a chance to compare the readings to scales this summer, I will.

IdaD wrote:

philh wrote:
Can't imagine this is anything but a WAG with a lot of assumptions.

I already use the WAG method for figuring my weights, and it's free.

But you’re about 20 years too young....lol. Give it a few more years and you’ll be counting how many potatoes are in the camper and putting bathroom scales under your trailer jacks!

Mr. Truck recently reviewed the new Silverado 2.7L. He mentions some HaulGauge tests he did near the beginning of the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwiLDv_yh_g

philh wrote:
Can't imagine this is anything but a WAG with a lot of assumptions.

Ditto.

This is something new?
I remember logging trucks in Northwestern Montana having electronic scales installed on the truck and trailer axles so that the driver could check the weight as he was loaded. It really sucked to think you were OK, then go across the scales and find that you had to hire somebody to come out and remove a few logs so you could proceed to the mill, then hire somebody again to come out and load the logs back on the truck so you could take them to the mill. I remember seeing stacks of logs sitting by the scale house back then.
This was pre 1970, when computers were pretty much unknown in the vehicle industry.
I register my trucks with plenty of GVW, so I don't need a toy like this.

mich800 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 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.

Some US States have found that the little trucks with trailers are far more profitable than the big ones. This is something that all depends where you are. Western Canada is lax about it. So are many of the western flatland states. MN will chase down commercial looking pickups that don’t stop at scales. I know for certain!

Now in the scope of this bulletin board, RV pulling pickups are not bothered anywhere, unless there is a transporter plate on the trailer.

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'm interested since I'm an Electrical Engineer and I design and manufacture seismic acquisition sensors; so any type of measurement system gets my attention.