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Weighing all four corners of your PC

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Weighing all four corners of your PC
« on: August 13, 2015, 05:46:21 pm »
Safe CCC weight distribution judged by weighing only the front and rear axles may create a false sense of proper tire loading. Getting the weight of the four corners of your coach is the only secure measurement for safe loading on tires.  Finding where to get this type of weighing is a problem if you are not at a rally.

At the past FMCA International Rally in Madison WI an exhibitor, Recreational Vehicle Safety & Education Foundation (RVSEF), provided four corner weighing.  This is the organization that revealed the early RV industry overweight building practices.  Now RV’s have more sensibly distributed dry weight and must now be equipped with a safety and weight label about cargo carrying capacity.

www.rvsafety.com, tel: 321-453-7673, Walter Cannon, Executive Dir. email: wcannon@rvsafety.com.

This is a resource if you are wondering about tire loading on your coach... particularly if you have the water tank in a bed slide-out.

The person I talked with was Shane Hess, email: jamishane06@hotmail.com.  He indicated they had portable corner weighing scales at two locations, Florida and I think Arizona. 

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Re: Weighing all four corners of your PC
« Reply #1 on: August 13, 2015, 09:47:46 pm »
Other possible resources for getting four corners weighed:

- Some moving company offices
- Some trucking company offices

We struggled to find a place in the SF Bay Area until we found out by accident that our local RV repair guy down the street had appropriate scales.

  - Mike