Want to know how to weigh at a CAT scale?
I've shared this in the fifth wheel forum, but thought I'd also share it for Beginners. Here is a video that I made for weighing my fifth wheel at a truck stop CAT scale. https://www.youtube.com/wa...
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Camper8251 wrote:
Thanks for the Great info! So how do you get your Tongue weight on a TT?
For TT's, you're encouraged to do 3 weights, though one is a bit superfluous:
- Truck + trailer w/ WDH engaged
- Truck + trailer w/o WDH engaged (throw the bars in the bed of the truck)
- Truck only
Pull off of the scale to make each change (i.e. removing the WDH bars).
Then basically the tongue weight is the difference between weight #2 and weight #3.
You can use this calculator to calculate it:
http://towingplanner.com/ActualWeights/TravelTrailerCatScales
The first weight isn't entirely needed but you can compare it against #2 to see how your WDH is working at distributing the weight to the truck's axle and back to the trailer's axles.
