Hi All,Anybody have experience with weighing their trailer at a "CAT" Scale facility? I would love to know the real weights of my new camper(tongue & loaded weight), but I'm intimidated by not knowing the procedures involved, envisioning a line of angry truckers with their horns blowing as I fumble foolishly unhitching and re-hitching the trailer. Is there a time slot to execute the weigh? How much does it cost to weigh a tow vehicle/camper?Thanks for your input!

I weighed once with the WD hooked and then I did a reway without the WD hitch. I never unhooked the trailer on the scales. I did have my hitch weighed for free at an RV repair shop.Drive on the scales with the front axle, rear axle and the trailer axles on different parts of the scale. Use your longest arm and push the button. Tell them private when they ask for a truck number. When there done drive off the scales, park and go in and get your slip.

What K Charles said.It's not a big deal; just let them know you're private, pull off, go in get the slip (I've had to pay a couple of times) and there ya' go.

Thanks for the replies!At the risk of showing my stupidity, how can they calculate the tongue weight etc. when the trailer and truck are connected. Do I have the truck weighed separately first?Thanks again-

Read through fellow contributor Doug's blog.http://learntorv.blogspot.com/2013/04/getting-weighed-adventure-at-cat-scales.html

Here is my suggestion. When you arrive at the facility, do not go onto the scale first. Park and go inside and explain you are wanting to do three seperate passes over the scale. Pull onto the scale and get your first weigh with your weight bars engaged. I use the last four of my license plates as my truck numberDrive off the scale, get out of the traffic pattern, release the bars, drive back onto the scale, tell him on the speaker it is a reweigh.Drive off the scale again, go find a corner of the lot to park and disconnect the trailer, go back for a third trip onto the scale with just your truck.Go inside and pay. I will likely be around $13 for all three tickets.You now have all the info you need to determine your loading values.

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ChooChooMan74
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Jun 18, 2013
Read through fellow contributor Doug's blog.

http://learntorv.blogspot.com/2013/04/getting-weighed-adventure-at-cat-scales.html
Jimbee
Explorer
Jun 18, 2013
Thanks for the replies!

At the risk of showing my stupidity, how can they calculate the tongue weight etc. when the trailer and truck are connected. Do I have the truck weighed separately first?

Thanks again-
PA12DRVR
Explorer
Jun 18, 2013
What K Charles said.

It's not a big deal; just let them know you're private, pull off, go in get the slip (I've had to pay a couple of times) and there ya' go.
K_Charles
Explorer
Jun 18, 2013
I weighed once with the WD hooked and then I did a reway without the WD hitch. I never unhooked the trailer on the scales. I did have my hitch weighed for free at an RV repair shop.

Drive on the scales with the front axle, rear axle and the trailer axles on different parts of the scale. Use your longest arm and push the button. Tell them private when they ask for a truck number. When there done drive off the scales, park and go in and get your slip.

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