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Originally Posted by LadyFaire
Stupid question - do I need to hit the scales when hauling my TT? I've seen several posts about going through the scales. I thought they were only required for commercial vehicles.
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Many folks come onto this site and are in a quandary whether the truck they own is overloaded with the trailer they have or are considering buying a trailer and want to know if the tow vehicle is up to snuff. Common wisdom is to have the person go to a commercial set of scales (truck stops usually) and get real world numbers they can compare to the payload and tow capacity of their truck. Often folks are mislead by conflicting numbers put out by either the truck or camper manufacturers and in reality, as has been pointed out, all trucks of a certain model are not equal and trailers get loaded and increase weight and pin (tongue) weight well beyond what the manufacturer states. I have yet to hear of someone asking and finding out they had too much truck.