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Re: [VAL] Re: VAL Digest V1 #35 - Weighing In



Can't you simply go to a truckstop that has certified scales and at least 3
"pads" for the axles to get this done?  That way you get front axle, rear
axle and the trailer axle weight.

At home you could get the tongue weight done with a small scale but you
could also figure that same weight is about 10-15% of your total trailer
weight when the trailer is unloaded and level.

Once you weigh your vehicle with full fuel and maybe a passenger or two at a
truckstop to get front and rear axles without the trailer hooked up it would
be so easy to look at the differences in axle weights when you get your
entire rigged weighed in later on.

Your way "looks" as if there is only a single pad to weigh axles at these
remote weigh stations.  True?

Tom
WBCCI 5303