Weight tickets thread

[Gbkeith]

There's a new Loves truck stop a half mile from my house. Just noticed today that they have a CAT Scale there.

How much do they generally charge to weigh?

Around here 14.75 for the first weigh and 5.00 for a re-weigh. Just a few years ago it was like 10 and 2.

 

[GLTHFJ60]

Use the Weigh My Truck App and you don't have to go inside. Pay and get your weights right on your phone.

 

[gt1guy]

Use the Weigh My Truck App and you don't have to go inside. Pay and get your weights right on your phone.

Just did that. Thank you.

I have a set of race scales here at the house, but they are only good to 6000lbs total, 1500lbs per. It's nice to know I can get a heavier weight scaled and be back home in 15mins.

 

[JD Mark]

My little panels average 660 pounds.

Is that second trailer axle an optical illusion?

 

[Gbkeith]

Is that second trailer axle an optical illusion?

Like the picture with all the dots that you look at until a sailboat appears?

 

[JD Mark]

Like the picture with all the dots that you look at until a sailboat appears?

Exactly...why does a sailboat need 2 axles?

 

[Gbkeith]

Exactly...why does a sailboat need 2 axles?

I believe they’re called masts.

 

[JD Mark]

I believe they’re called masts.

Guess I stared too long.

 

[Gbkeith]

Guess I stared too long.

Yeah, that’s what the waitress down at Leetle Pablo’s Burrito Emporium told me.

 

[[486]]

Is that second trailer axle an optical illusion?

why weigh the trailer axles separate? they got an equalizer between them

ETA: huh nope looks like torsion axles, so I guess it would be somewhat valid to scale them one at a time

 

[Gbkeith]

I weighed them together.

 

[[486]]

yes that is what the paper says

 

[Gbkeith]

I can’t decide if yall are making this too complicated or if I’m not making it complicated enough.

 

[[486]]

I can’t decide if yall are making this too complicated or if I’m not making it complicated enough.

eh, without any kind of equalizer you could have one axle loaded a lot more than the other
but whatever

 

[Gbkeith]

eh, without any kind of equalizer you could have one axle loaded a lot more than the other
but whatever

This is true.

 

[arse_sidewards]

eh, without any kind of equalizer you could have one axle loaded a lot more than the other
but whatever

<laughs in one big axle>

 

[CarterKraft]

eh, without any kind of equalizer you could have one axle loaded a lot more than the other
but whatever

The scale platform is made for the 40-53' varieties scaling both axles separately would require 2 weighs to get all individual weights steer, drive, t1, t2

 

[[486]]

<laughs in one big axle>

* bearing failure leaves you no options but abandoning the trailer to run home to get a single ended temporary axle tossed together to get limped home *

nothing personnel, kid

 

[arse_sidewards]

* bearing failure leaves you no options but abandoning the trailer to run home to get a single ended temporary axle tossed together to get limped home *

nothing personnel, kid

Bearing failures are basically nonexistent if you're not ******ed.

If you'd have screeched about the stability implications of losing a tire at speed while at the ragged edge of what a tow rig can handle you'd have a point.

 

[[486]]

Bearing failures are basically nonexistent if you're not ******ed.

If you'd have screeched about the stability implications of losing a tire at speed while at the ragged edge of what a tow rig can handle you'd have a point.

eh, dying isn't a huge concern
when it happens your suffering is over

 

[JayMcJay]

2023 F350 CCLB pulling a 40' goose. With an old CNC mill on the goose, headed to scrap.
Sorry, no pics of the BDL or individual axle weights.

 

[arse_sidewards]

eh, dying isn't a huge concern
when it happens your suffering is over

Not dying and having to fix my ****box is what bothers me.

 

[Gbkeith]

 

[06h3]

Pic of the setup?

 

[Gbkeith]

Pic of the setup?

This is the weight ticket thread. Not the incriminate yourself thread.

 

[06h3]

34k lbs hauled by a semi….yawn.
34k lbs hauled by a 1 ton pickup, cool.
34k lbs hauled by a ford ranger, we need a video.

 

[Gbkeith]

34k lbs hauled by a semi….yawn.
34k lbs hauled by a 1 ton pickup, cool.
34k lbs hauled by a ford ranger, we need a video.

It was the one most likely to have a 5000 pound front axle weight but that probably shouldn’t have a 10k rear axle weight. I’ll see if I can get a picture today.

 

[arse_sidewards]

It was the one most likely to have a 5000 pound front axle weight but that probably shouldn’t have a 10k rear axle weight. I’ll see if I can get a picture today.

Sterlings and D70+ will do 10k all day.

SRW 14B and D60 are the only axles you can get in a 1-ton anything that are sus at those kinds of weights.

So either it's a Chebby truck or you pulled a Pablo and grossed 34k behind an E-van.

Could really go either way considering who's involved.

 

[Gbkeith]

Sterlings and D70+ will do 10k all day.

SRW 14B and D60 are the only axles you can get in a 1-ton anything that are sus at those kinds of weights.

So either it's a Chebby truck or you pulled a Pablo and grossed 34k behind an E-van.

Could really go either way considering who's involved.

Depends on how many tires are on those axles.

 

[Gbkeith]

Yesterday looked about the same except with 14 bales instead of 12, another 3k right at the front of the trailer. I misjudged how heavy the hay was.