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Old 09-05-2021, 02:34 PM   #7
notanlines
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Russ, I dearly loved your "If you weigh all three axles TV front, TV rear, and trailer axles together, then weigh the TV axles without the 5er. Add the TV axles from the 1st weigh together, then add the TV axles from 2nd weigh together and subtract that sum from the sum of the 1st weigh, this will result in the pin weight.
Then you can add the pin weight to the trailer axle weights for GVW of the 5er."

It couldn't be more accurate no matter how you phrased it, but think about a newbie trying to move from a, let's say, Toyota Tacoma to a regular truck and a medium fifth wheel with no RV experience. The old timers here just go on about their business, do most of the calculations in their head, nod or shake their heads and go on.
There simply is no way to explain to a newbie in simple terms where they are headed.
The actual use of CAT scales is light-years ahead in simplicity versus doing the actual figuring when the weighing is completed.
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