Truck / Trailer weigh in

twxsby89 wrote:
Scale Results, two weighs, two charges. ($21.00 total)
1. Trailer hooked to truck: Truck 7860; Trailer 7560; both 15420

2. Trailer unhooked from truck: Truck 6740; Trailer 8800; both 15540

I was not in the truck for the second weigh in, and I weigh a lot more than 120.

Tongue weight = 1120 lbs

I'm not sure what you weighed??

1. For weight #1 was the WDH installed and hooked up or was it just the trailer tongue on the ball in a straight weight carrying configuration.

2. For weight #2 was the 8800 for both the TT axles and the tongue jack and weight #2 15540 should have been less than weight #1 15420 by your actual weight and not #120 lbs heavier.

I appears you tried to subtract the truck weight in #1 7860 from the truck weight in #2 6740 to come up with a tongue wt. of 1120 however that should be 1120lbs less your actual weight and if 200 then the tongue wt. would be 920lbs. This assumes your WDH if installed was not engaged for weight #1.

Maybe I'm missing something or reading/understanding what you did, but something doesn't make sense at least to me.

However, if weight #1 was w/o any WDH engaged and the TT axles weighed 7560 and if the second weight for the trailer was for the TT axles plus the tongue 8800lbs then the tongue wt. should be 1240lbs.

P.S. you shouldn't have to pay for 2 complete weigh ins only pay for a reweigh which is about $1 to $2 at most and IIRC usually no cost. Now if these weights were not done back to back, but some time elapsed then something might have changed weight wise, but that is unclear at least to me.

Larry