Light pin weight
Weighed my trailer the other day, the pin weight comes in at 12%. Had the fresh tank full which resides behind the axles. An educated guess is the pin will fluctuate from the low of 12% to maybe 17%...
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Padlin wrote:
If it matters, the TV weighed 6540, the pin 520, the trailer axles 3840. Truck was empty except for the driver, the trailer lightly loaded for a weekend.
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I weighed it like you're supposed to. TV only, then TV and trailer, or vice versa, wheels properly positioned on the scales. Pin weight being the weight gain on the truck axles.
It sounds like you did this correctly, but I'd definitely be curious about a re-weigh. Taking their dry numbers, they have an approximately 16% dry pin weight (600 / 3700 = 16.2% where 600 is the dry hitch weight and 3,700 is the dry vehicle weight). I'd be surprised if they really expect to unload pin weight by 4%.
