I will file a complete post tomorrow on Rainbow’s End, the Escapees RV Club’s home base here in Livingston, TX. But today we took advantage of the SmartWeigh program to get a detailed weight analysis of our rig. Given our history with blowouts, it seemed like a really good idea to find out if we were over our weight limit on any axle.
For $55, we got a weight for each side of each axle of the truck, with and without the trailer attached, plus per-wheel weights on the RV. Bottom line: the truck is fine, the front axle of the RV is fine, but the rear axle is slightly over its limit. The primary lesson: we need to move some stuff from the bunkhouse forward when we travel. But now that we have wheel-by-wheel weights we can, at long last, figure out what the “right” air pressure is for each tire.
Seems like a lot of useful information for $55.
There are permanent scales at both Livingston and the Escapees campground in Congress, AZ. Plus they take the scales to jamborees. You don’t need to be an Escapees club member to get weighed.
Highly recommended.
The SmartWeigh station