Where to weigh your Travel trailer
Does anyone know where to bring a travel trailer to be weighed?. I was told the trucker CAT scales are not the place to get the accurate weight for my RV. Thanks!
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Poohper wrote:
We don't have very much where I live except we do have Trucker stops with scales not far away that I can probably get a close estimate of the weight from. The RV repair place we go to said that we were close to our truck towing weight so I am a little nervous to travel now. Even though we only have towels, pots and pans in it. We have a 2007 Ford F250 diesel truck.
You can get the exact weight. 2 ways to do it. 1. weigh the truck alone. Then hook up, and weigh the truck, and trailer together. (this will be the GCVW) Then just subtract the weight of the truck from the total weight. That will give you the trailer weight, but not the tongue weight. To get the tongue weight. simple pull the truck forward until the back wheels are off the scale. Weigh it. And subtract that from the trailer weight. that is the tongue weight.
OR you can unhook and drop the trailer on the scale, and pull the truck off. That will give you the total trailer weight. however to get the tongue weight, you will still need to hook up, and pull the truck wheels off the scale, as above.
ain't that hard.
