I was running heavy
All this talk of tires lately had me curious. I am on my way on a 5 day trip and passing by CAT scales. I noticed the wife and kids packed pretty heavy (I only brought at shirt and beer) and I had a f...
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samhain7 wrote:Old-Biscuit wrote:
From your weights you had both front/rear truck axles on same scale....you pulled to far forward.
If truck weighed 7820 alone and 9000 with trailer hitched up......that's 1180# tongue weight which is 13%
Trailer hitched up......7560 + 1180----8740#
I am a newbie to scales.
Their instruction was this.
1. Pull up to speaker and hit call button.
2. Pull forward to second call button.
3. Pull off scale and get results.
I don't get your numbers old biscuit. Are you saying they were accurate of in-accurate.
YES I am saying numbers are correct.
You posted 9000# steer axle and 0# on drive axle with 7560# trailer axle (all weight was recorded on steer...nothing on drive)
You then posted truck alone was 7820#
So 9000# total truck (with trailer connected) MINUS 7820# truck only is 1180# which is amount of trailer tongue weight truck was carrying.
Trailer axle 7560# plus 1180# tongue is 8740# total trailer weight.
1180# is 13.5% of 8740#
