Re: hauling question - tractor

Posted by john on March 17, 2004 at 04:35:24 from (68.158.137.137):

In Reply to: hauling question - tractor posted by mud on March 16, 2004 at 08:36:20:

This will work for any vehicle.
First you need to know your hitch rating. You say 10,000 lbs. I would think this is with a weight distributing set up and that would be hard to do with a pintal. At 10,000 lbs your tongue max should be about 1,000 lbs. I would say with out the weight distributing set up your hitch is rated at 5,000 lbs gross and 500 lbs tongue; but that is for you to determine.
Now determine the GVWR of your truck. This is on a tag on drivers door/post. Next determine the GWR of the trailer. You say yours is 18,000 lbs.
Then take your truck to the local truck stop to weigh it. I like using Cat scales because they are guaranteed. Find closest location here First you should weight just the truck. $8.00 You will be given a scale ticket that will look like this.
1) steer xxxx
2) drive xxxx
3) trailer 0000
4) gross xxxxx
This will be Ticket #1

Then you will weigh the truck and empty trailer. If you do it in the same day tell them it is a re-weigh $1.00 This will be ticket #2

Now subtract line #4 on ticket #2 from truck GVWR
Subtract line #3 on ticket #2 from trailer GWR
Subtract line #3 on ticket #2 from hitch rating
Take the smallest number. This is the total load weight you can haul.

Now you can load the load on your trailer and re-weigh. Subtract line #2 on ticket #1 from line #2 on this ticket. This is your tongue weight. Adjust the load on your trailer to get this with in limits.

Sure hope this made sense and you could follow it.

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