CAT Scale - What's the Procedure?
03-31-2017, 04:50 PM
#21
When I went, I called first to see when they were typically not busy.
Then, when I got there, my first stop was inside to tell them what I wanted to do.
I didn't have to, but some places ask you to make up a unit number, so they will know it is you when you make the second and third passes.
I pulled in fully loaded with bars tight on the first pass.
Second pass, I put the truck axles only on, with bars tight.
Third pass, I dropped my trailer in the yard and weighed just my truck.
That gave me the actual weight of my truck, the tongue weight when hitched and the total weight of both together.
Same as someone else posted above, a very inexpensive charge for the initial weigh ($10-$12), then $2 each for each subsequent weigh.
I am rather tall at 6' 4" and had no trouble reaching the call button standing outside my truck. Can't believe others needed extensions and such to reach the button.
Then, when I got there, my first stop was inside to tell them what I wanted to do.
I didn't have to, but some places ask you to make up a unit number, so they will know it is you when you make the second and third passes.
I pulled in fully loaded with bars tight on the first pass.
Second pass, I put the truck axles only on, with bars tight.
Third pass, I dropped my trailer in the yard and weighed just my truck.
That gave me the actual weight of my truck, the tongue weight when hitched and the total weight of both together.
Same as someone else posted above, a very inexpensive charge for the initial weigh ($10-$12), then $2 each for each subsequent weigh.
I am rather tall at 6' 4" and had no trouble reaching the call button standing outside my truck. Can't believe others needed extensions and such to reach the button.
04-12-2017, 04:58 PM
#22
Junior Member
to Grumpy Old Man:
Thanks for your detailed reply. I think it gives me the information I was looking for. Assuming that the WDH shifts 130 - 160 pounds to the trailer wheels and 130 - 160 pounds to the truck front axle, then my trailer weighs about (5120-145) +650 = 5626 which means that my trailer's natural balance w/o load bars is 650/5626 = 11.5% which means that I did not screw up the balance when I added about 900 pounds and moved some of the heavy items around.
Thanks for your detailed reply. I think it gives me the information I was looking for. Assuming that the WDH shifts 130 - 160 pounds to the trailer wheels and 130 - 160 pounds to the truck front axle, then my trailer weighs about (5120-145) +650 = 5626 which means that my trailer's natural balance w/o load bars is 650/5626 = 11.5% which means that I did not screw up the balance when I added about 900 pounds and moved some of the heavy items around.