I have been driving local, 60 mile round trip. I just had my first heavy load and want to know how heavy it was. So I weighed it. it was 70,460 (steer 10,960, drive 28,020, trailer 31,480). Now if I knew what the truck weighed I would know what my load weighed. It is a new Freightliner day cab and a 48' trailer with a roll door. Any idea what I weigh empty with 3/4 tank fuel? If I weight myself empty I have to pay for it and I return it to the rental company Monday.
I thought there would be a sticker on the truck with the empty weight but I couldn't find it. I found a sticker that has GAWR and GVWR. What do those mean? On the trailer GVWR is 68,000 and GAWR says 2 @ 20,000.
What does my load weigh & how do you read the stickers
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Leea, Sep 29, 2011.
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I'd say you were 2460 over gross.....
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Your Bill of Laden or packing list should of had the freight's weight on it. Then subtract that from gross. It's probably aound 30-32,000.
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All 3 weights can't be over 80K. -
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Since I am local warehouse to store I don't have a BOL. They guessed at the weight of a pallet full of floor tiles at 2,000.
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Tractor-12-15k
Trailer-15k
Ball park figures. -
It's only $9.50 to weigh it.
Not that much if you 'really' want to know. -
At a Cat scale it's $9.95 for a first weigh and $1.00 for a reweigh.
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Just weigh when empty to get your curb weight.
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