Please sit down before reading. First I want to say that the people I bought the trailer from said it had a tag on it that said the trialer weighed 9700. Second, my buddy looked the weight up on a blue book trailer guide and he said that the trialer should weigh 11700. So I figured that the king pin weight should be max of around 3000 or so. I figured 11700 X .25. Now I figured I would go weigh my truck and find out how much the trailer weighs and to find out my king pin weight. Now keep in mind that I have a 2500 HD with airbags and a diesel/allison. The first weigh in was 4300 front tires/7600 back tires/8760 trailer tires. Now I've weighed my truck and it comes to 3940 front tires/2740 back tires. That makes my trialer almost 14K and a king pin weight of 4860!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The next weigh in with the trailer (made some load and GN adjustments) came out like this. 4240 front tires/ 7140 back tires/9060 trailer tires. This is a little better but I'm still at around 4400 king pin weight on the truck. Is this even close to normal or is this just stupid crazy? I personally think it is nuts and I'm glad I weighed the trailer so I can now justify buying a new truck. Now the bigger question.......What truck is going to be enough? I don't even think a 3500 dually will do the job. Any ideas or thoughts? Now keep in mind that I bought the trailer across country and was given information that wasn't exactly correct. BTW. I did haul the trailer from Oklahoma City to Phoenix with no problems and it pulled like a dream. Later, Chad |