{"id":981,"date":"2012-10-19T12:50:36","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T16:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=981"},"modified":"2012-10-20T07:30:11","modified_gmt":"2012-10-20T11:30:11","slug":"smartweigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/19\/smartweigh\/","title":{"rendered":"SmartWeigh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I will file a complete post tomorrow on Rainbow&#8217;s End, the Escapees RV Club&#8217;s home base here in Livingston, TX. But today we took advantage of the <a title=\"SmartWeigh\" href=\"http:\/\/www.escapees.com\/smartweigh\/\">SmartWeigh<\/a> program to get a detailed weight analysis of our rig. Given our history with blowouts, it seemed like a <em>really\u00a0<\/em>good idea to find out if we were over our weight limit on any axle.<\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0 Bottom line: the truck is fine, the front axle of the RV is fine, but the rear axle is slightly over its limit.\u00a0 The primary lesson: we need to move some stuff from the bunkhouse forward when we travel.\u00a0 But now that we have wheel-by-wheel weights we can, at long last, figure out what the &#8220;right&#8221; air pressure is for each tire.<\/p>\n<p>Seems like a lot of useful information for $55.<\/p>\n<p>There are permanent scales at both Livingston and the Escapees campground in Congress, AZ.\u00a0 Plus they take the scales to jamborees.\u00a0 You don&#8217;t need to be an Escapees club member to get weighed.<\/p>\n<p>Highly recommended.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_983\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/2012-10-19-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-983\" class=\"size-large wp-image-983\" title=\"2012-10-19 001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/2012-10-19-001-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/2012-10-19-001-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/2012-10-19-001-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/2012-10-19-001-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/2012-10-19-001-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-983\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The SmartWeigh station<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will file a complete post tomorrow on Rainbow&#8217;s End, the Escapees RV Club&#8217;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\u00a0good idea to find out if we were &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/19\/smartweigh\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,11,4,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-facts","category-gtw","category-places","category-places-tx"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-fP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":985,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions\/985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}