'Just make sure you're not over weight for your trailer license. 'May bring a ticket if you are.
Wilton ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig McCluskey" <diese...@cnsp.com> To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 1:45 PM Subject: [MBZ] Using truck scales [was Re: I make it back, Walmart hell (TRAILER TIRES)] > On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:42:07 -0600 "Kaleb C. Striplin" > <ka...@striplin.net> wrote: > > > I have thought about doing that at the truck stops that have scales. Do > > you have to pay for that? Do you just drive up on the scale or what? > > I would imagine that at a truck stop you would have to pay for it, though > I can't imagine that it would be much. If you can find a Oklahoma State > weigh station along an Interstate, you could do it for free. > > > We were driving from Colorado Springs to Austin, Texas, when I went off to > graduate school in '91. We had a rather loaded Dodge Caravan pulling a > rather loaded utility trailer. We pulled up to the scale at Limon, CO, and > the fellow running it came over the loudspeaker and said that we didn't > need to weigh. I told him that we wanted to see if we were overloaded > [particularly on the Caravan's rear axle] and he let us proceed. The state > scale had an outside display, so it was easy. I pulled the front axle onto > the scale, wrote down the number, pulled the rear axle also onto the scale > and wrote down that number, and finally, pulled the entire rig onto the > scale and wrote down that number. With a little subtraction, I was able to > easily find each axle weight. > > > Craig > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
