weights

[Phil P]

Hi

If you go to a Cat Scale the platform is commonly big enough for you to get the front axle on the front axle pad the rear axel on the most forward pad of the 2 rear axle pad the big trucks use and your trailer axels on the trailer pads.

This will allow you to get all 4 axel weights.

This gives you your GVW and all excel weights.

Drive around in a circle and position the truck so you have the truck axles in the truck pads but the trailer front landing gear legs on the section between the truck pads and the trailer pads.

Then put you front landing gear legs down they will contact the space between the truck axle pads and the trailer pads. Release the parking brake and take the truck out of park. You can then lift the weight off the truck.

Pay for a reweigh and that will give you your truck weight. I do this without unhooking the trailer you just have to be careful and make sure you only lift the trailer so you can see light between the trailer pin box and the hitch and make sure the pin hasn’t contacted the bottom of the hitch jaws.

You can also just park the trailer in one of the truck parking lanes and weight the truck. I am just lazy.

You get your trailer weight by subtracting the truck weight from the total of the first weighing.

It looks like you may be a little heavy on the truck. If you have a generator installed there isn’t much you can do about that except got to the DRW truck. If you are using the front generator compartment for storage without a generator then you can move some weight around to get the truck weight within specs.

Phil P