UVW on the yellow sticker

hohenwald48 wrote:

SoundGuy wrote:

hohenwald48 wrote:
However, nobody seems to know if UVW on the yellow sticker includes tongue weight or not. Or, if somebody knows they have not decided to give me the answer.

Seems like a simple question that should have a simple answer (yes or no) to me.

I gave you the correct answer in the first two words of my post ... read it again. :S

So, you're saying that if the UVW is #5,000 and the tongue weight is #1,000 then the TT actually weighs #6,000? Do you know that's true or is it your best guess?

No. The tongue weight is part of the UVW as it left the factory, 5,000#.

SoundGuy gave you the right answer.

Your problem is you don't recognize the correct answer when you see it. :S

3oaks wrote:

hohenwald48 wrote:

SoundGuy wrote:

hohenwald48 wrote:
However, nobody seems to know if UVW on the yellow sticker includes tongue weight or not. Or, if somebody knows they have not decided to give me the answer.

Seems like a simple question that should have a simple answer (yes or no) to me.

I gave you the correct answer in the first two words of my post ... read it again. :S

So, you're saying that if the UVW is #5,000 and the tongue weight is #1,000 then the TT actually weighs #6,000? Do you know that's true or is it your best guess?

No. The tongue weight is part of the UVW as it left the factory, 5,000#.

SoundGuy gave you the right answer.

Your problem is you don't recognize the correct answer when you see it. :S

Well, I suppose if I could recognize the correct answer before I asked the question I wouldn't have asked the question in the first place. My problem is that 25% of the responses say yes and 25% say no. The other 50% take off on a tangent that has nothing to do with the original question. And a small percentage just want to make a snarky comment and post a silly emoticon.

3oaks wrote:

hohenwald48 wrote:

SoundGuy wrote:

hohenwald48 wrote:
However, nobody seems to know if UVW on the yellow sticker includes tongue weight or not. Or, if somebody knows they have not decided to give me the answer.

Seems like a simple question that should have a simple answer (yes or no) to me.

I gave you the correct answer in the first two words of my post ... read it again. :S

So, you're saying that if the UVW is #5,000 and the tongue weight is #1,000 then the TT actually weighs #6,000? Do you know that's true or is it your best guess?

No. The tongue weight is part of the UVW as it left the factory, 5,000#.

SoundGuy gave you the right answer.

Your problem is you don't recognize the correct answer when you see it. :S

Well, I suppose if I could recognize the correct answer before I asked the question I wouldn't have asked the question in the first place. My problem is that 25% of the responses say yes and 25% say no. The other 50% take off on a tangent that has nothing to do with the original question. And a small percentage just want to make a snarky comment and post a silly emoticon.

hohenwald48 wrote:

fireman41 wrote:
The hitch weight is just a percentage of the trailer weight.

Can you explain what you mean by this?

Ok I'm not good with words and a key board but I'll try.

OK so your trailer weight is supported in 2 places, the axles and the hitch. The reason is because of were the axles are placed. Just behind the middle point of the trailer.
So now the axles should carry at least 90 % of the weight and the hitch 10 %

So just for easy math let's say that your trailer weights 1000 lbs. And 90% of the weight was on the axle which would be 900 lbs. So that would leave you whit a 100 lbs to be on the hitch.

So the hitch weight is only the percentage of the weight not carried by the trailers axles. It is usually somewhere between 10 and 15%.

From a google search of 'trailer uvw':
"Unloaded Vehicle Weight (UVW) is the weight of a vehicle as manufactured at the factory. "

Seem simple to me. If that meant the trailer is weighed with the tongue off the scales and supported, I think they would have said that.

fireman41 wrote:
---So now the axles should carry at least 90 % of the weight and the hitch 10 %.

Did you mean to write,

"the axles should carry at most 90% of the weight and the hitch at least 10%"?

Ron

Ron Gratz wrote:

fireman41 wrote:
---So now the axles should carry at least 90 % of the weight and the hitch 10 %.

Did you mean to write,

"the axles should carry at most 90% of the weight and the hitch at least 10%"?

Ron

Ya what you said.
Like I said not good with words and a key borad.

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UVW is the TOTAL WEIGHT OF TRAILER.........TOTAL WEIGHT
TONGUE/AXLES TIRES/WHEELS.....FURNITURE?APPLIANCES ETC ETC ETC


ONE BIG SCALE WITH TRAILER ON IT.

Mike UP,

TY for confirming what I recalled about the propane being included in the uvw stated on the yellow sticker!!!