I thought I would give an example of my truck and trailer weights with checks that I did after researching and reading to answer the most asked question of " Is my truck safe to pull this trailer". GCVWR: Gross Combined Vehicle Weight rating (Truck and trailer weight combined) Gross Axle weight rating: Truck front axle weight rating, Truck Rear axle weight rating, Trailer axle weight rating. My truck is an 04' Dodge Quadcab dually. Here are the weight specs. GCVWR: 23,000 lbs (This is for my truck with 4.10 gears) Rear Axle rating: 9350 lbs. Front Axle rating: 4740 lbs. Tire ratings: Load Range E: Single tire setup can support 3085 lbs per tire and a dual tire setup can support 2835 lbs per tire. So the front tires can support 6170 lbs at Max cold pressure which is well over the front axle rating from Dodge. Rear Tire Load caring ability: 4 tires in the dual setup for a total of 11,340 lbs (with tires set at max. cold psi of 80 lbs.) which is well over the rear axle weight rating from Dodge at 9350 lbs. My trailer ratings on an 06' Exiss Event 412 ( 4 horse with 12 ft. living quaters) 2 Dexter 7,000 lb axles for a rear axle weight rating of 14,000 lbs. My trailer has load range G tires that will support 3750 lbs per tire for a total of 15,000 lbs. Here are my weights after weighing my truck (with full tank of fuel) with no horses in the trailer but the water tank filled up. Front axle weight from scale: 4100 lbs. Rear axle weight from scale: 6740 lbs. Trailer axle weight from scale: 6980 lbs. GCVW from scale: 17,820 lbs. So I am very close on my front axle weight of the truck and the rear axle weight I have 2610 lbs to spare. My trailer axle weight I have 7020lbs to spare but with 4 horses with an average weight of 1000 per horse it will leave 3020 lbs. to spare. My GCVW is the major concern. I only have 5180 lbs to spare and with 4 horses in the trailer that will leave only 1180 lbs to spare if the average weight of each horse is 1000 lbs per horse. So with X number and passengers I can only load up 1180 lbs of stuff. That's close. Hope this helps everyone. If I have made any mistakes let me know. I am not perfect and all this information I have learned from research online. So basicaly all the weights have to pass together. |