calling all weight police

Road Phantom wrote:
I know I'm over on the hitch weight, but not sure by how much. My truck is a 2018 Ram 2500, diesel, 4X4 Crew Cab. At the scale with the 5th wheel trailer attached, the steering axle was 4820 lbs. The drive axle weighed 5660. Trailer weighs 8260 for a total of 18740.
The truck weighs around 6800 lbs. If I add the hitch and drive axle weights and subtract the weight of the truck alone, I come up 3680 or about 880 lbs over on the hitch weight. Is my math right?

I doubt your truck weighs 6,800# ready to tow, our old 2001 Ram scaled 7,800# ready to tow with hitch and in bed tool box.
You need to drop the 5er and scale the TV front and rear axles, my guess is that you have about a 2,400# pin.

The truck weighs around 6800 lbs. If I add the hitch and drive axle weights and subtract the weight of the truck alone, I come up 3680 or about 880 lbs over on the hitch weight. Is my math right?

My older quad cab short bed 2wd '03 2500 Dodge/Cummins/NV5600 gross weight scales at 6820 lbs. The 4wd models of my same truck of that era scale in the 7100-7200 lb range from the factory.
Your newer gen 2500 4wd trucks probably weighs closer to 7400-7500 lbs from the factory. It gains weight as we load our junk in it.

Just curious but where did you come up with hitch weight number. I understand how we get a hitch weight but I our trucks don't have a hitch weight sticker number or even a brochure number.
Are you talking about the payload sticker number ?

steering axle was 4820 lbs. The drive axle weighed 5660.

Axle/Tire Load Ratings ARE what matters

Good to GO!!

Your RAWR is around 2950 lbs empty. Your base weight of a Tradesman model would be around 7800 lbs. Round them up and 8,000 for the truck and 3000 lbs for the rear axle. 5660 lbs = 3,000 lbs would be 2660 lbs for pin.
My Ram 6.4 is 6900+ lbs. You need to add 1,000 lbs for your CTD to that.
https://www.ramtrucks.com/content/dam/fca-brands/na/ramtrucks/en_us/towing/2018%20Ram%202500.pdf

Go back and weigh your truck without the trailer, don't guess. I'll bet it's closer to 8,000. My dually crew cab diesel is 8,800. My 40 foot toy hauler has 3,500 pounds on the pin, I doubt yours is anywhere near that. Doing some quick math I think you have maybe 2,200 on the pin.

Your truck has to weigh more than 6,800! I'm going to guess about 8K. With the rear axle weighing 5,660, what is the problem? Your RAWR has to be more than 6,000. The tires should be good for 7,000.

I think the WP are all gone for the weekend!! Whatever happened to the chief of WP Donno???

Jerry

How much does this reduce your effective braking from the front axle?