[jdubh]

Just go back from a week long trip to Lake Leelanau, MI. Wife and kid decided to stay up a couple extra days with the mother in law. To keep myself entertained on the 520mi trip home I ran the truck through the CAT scales at my third fill up and was a bit concerned.

Steer Axle 3160
Drive Axle 4140
Trailer Axle 8300
Gross Weight 15,600

I had no idea I was that heavy and this was without the wife, kid, their clothes, kids high/chair and car seat and minus all the food we took up which included 5 24-bottle packs of water, probably 100+ cans of pop. I'm betting I was at 16,300 or so on the way up.

Weird thing is, drive up was much better than the drive back.

According to Toyota my Equal-i-zer hitch is not setup correctly as it has subtracted 60lbs from the front axle.

There was only about 50lbs of tools in the bed of the truck, nothing in the cab so the trailer was adding 1820lbs to the truck.

Something is not right even though the trailer and truck are both level.

Truck weight 7300lbs...200lbs over Toyota's 7100lbs rating. And those weights put the trailer at 10,060lbs....

Sewer and grey tanks were empty, had maybe 10-15 gallons of freshwater as we like to have a little to use on the road, but that's only 80-150lbs or so...

I did not know I could do a reweigh for $1...otherwise I would have worked on the hitch to see what I could get...but I definitely need to throw a few things out of the trailer or get a storage shed at my seasonal site....

All in all it didn't tow bad or struggle on any hills but I am concerned about how my WDH is not working properly

The trailer looks a bit like it's pointing up in the photo but that's because the air bags were set high, lowered to about 25psi and it leveled out.