| Re: [GMCnet] Re: Birchaven weighs 10,100 ? [message #366351 is a reply to message #366326] |
Thu, 26 August 2021 00:24   |
Ken Burton
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Registered: January 2004
Location: Hebron, Indiana
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Find yourself a State Highway weigh station that is open (or closed). Pull the whole coach on the scale and read the display. Now you will have a second weighing to compare to. Most of these state scales are "certified" frequently because drivers are given tickets and sometimes prevented from continuing in if they exceed 16,000 or 18,000 per axle.
Grain scales are usually not looking for total weight, but are instead comparing the weight going in vs. total weight leaving. No one cares if the totals are off by a few hundred pounds because they are off the same going in and leaving.
When I worked in a steel mill we weighed all trucks both in and out on each axle. The was to verify the amount loaded and also to make sure each axle was not overloaded by the steel loading location on the trailer. We had "certified" weights that had been around since the 1920s and a crane. Monthly they would drag the weights out (usually on Sunday), drop them on the scales, and re-certify them again. I do not know how they certify highway scales but I doubt it was old school as we were.
Ken Burton - N9KB
76 Palm Beach
Hebron, Indiana
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