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I am looking to purchase a trailer for my AA truck to haul to some out of town events
So I need the total weigh
Its a 1930 AA dully, short wheel base, 82B cab, 88A platform with 188A stake racks

McMillan's book shows 3837 lbs.

Bob

Nice Truck! I agree with that on the 3800+ lbs. I never done it but it should fit on a car trailer.

/Jeff

West Virginia Model AA

If you have a local truck stop, sand/gravel pit or trash/dump/transfer station, most have truck scales.

It's great that you are trying to get the correct trailer to tow your AA but you also need to have the correct tow vehicle. Anything less than a 1 ton truck can be dangerous. I have a half ton Chevy Siverado and an 18'0 steel trailer that pulls my model A cars around nicely but I wouldn't think of towing your AA with my half ton Silverado. I towed a 31 dump truck once with a 3/4 ton truck and it was even a little dicey.

JW,
I had the same idea a while back and took mine to the grain mill......... lol
Front axle wt was 1968 lbs
Rear axle was 2960 lbs
I had a full tank of gas and nothing in the back other than the factory racks. Hope this helps.
If you are looking for a trailer I would go with twin axle and and something that can do 5,000 lbs min.
Juat my opinion but I was looking for something that would do 6,500 lbs plus the trailer to give you a total wieght around 8,000 lbs letting you tow it with something in the family of a 3/4 ton.

Good luck and the truck look great.
Dave

Make sure that you not only measure the length, but the width. A deckover may work better for you. Like others have said, make sure that you have a big enough truck, with good brakes and a heavy duty transmission.

Red

dont forget good chains to strap the AA down with....

and ramps that can support the truck as its being loaded (unless you get a tilt deck trailer)

Front axle wt was 1968 lbs
Rear axle was 2960 lbs

Wow that's almost 1100 lbs. more than the 3837 lbs.the McMillan book shows.

Bob

Bob C wrote:Front axle wt was 1968 lbs
Rear axle was 2960 lbs

Wow that's almost 1100 lbs. more than the 3837 lbs.the McMillan book shows.

Bob

You won't get the correct weight of the truck weighing one axle at a time. You have to have both axles on the scale at the same time to get the correct weight.

So is this wrong.

The reason why you would get the two different reading is so that when you go to put it on the trailer you can figure out what the center of gravity is for the truck. I can not find the drawing that I had but I was able to figure out that the center of the trailer had to be pretty close to like 113 inches from the center of the front wheel so that you do not have all the wieght on the tongue and you do have the tongue tipping up.....

Chris,
I drove the truck onto the scale and got the total wieght and it was with in about 100 lbs of the two axle wieghts. That is how they do highway truck checks here in NY. The state police have portable scales that you drive on and do one axle at a time.

Dave

dyoungs wrote: The state police have portable scales that you drive on and do one axle at a time.

Dave

Same here in CA.

Chris Haynes wrote:

dyoungs wrote: The state police have portable scales that you drive on and do one axle at a time.

Dave

Same here in CA.

Chris, so your previous earlier post is right or wrong ? Maybe the Massachusetts State Police are doing it wrong . I just want to understand it correctly for the next time I get scaled by the MSP .
Don

Now you can figure out the weight of any vehicle with a ruler (or tape measure) and a tire pressure gauge. No fancy scales needed.

Red