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Weighing the Empty Trailer

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OVERLOADING Southlands DUMP trailer 4K

What happens here

The truck and empty dump trailer are driven onto a large industrial scale to obtain the empty weight. An operator in a control tower assists with the weighing process. The scale initially displays the weight in kilograms, which is then verbally converted to pounds. The empty weight of the truck and trailer is recorded as 15,190 pounds.

Goal: Determine the empty weight of the truck and trailer combination.

Tools and materials

  • Industrial Scale — Measuring the weight of the truck and trailer
  • Truck with Southland Dump Trailer GMC — The vehicle combination to be weighed

What they say

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[Music] do we got a mode that dump trailer up to about 23,000 lb okay are you guys able just to load us up and then we'll just dump it back we're just doing some testing for self mind trailers yeah and then we'll just run over the scale and see how close we can get to 23,000 lb okay and then we'll Max it out okay what do you what kind of trailers is that the same oh a dump trailer NE dump yeah okay do you want me to pull on the scale or anything first or just kind of go around it well it's up to you if you want to pull on to see what kind of net weight you have in there sure we need to do that we need to get the empty weight okay you know just pick whatever whatever bin you want to get loaded with and sure okay we'll throw it on throw it on and do that you want to pull on first we'll get an empty awesome okay thanks so much there's our scale now that's in kilogram so we won't know what the hell it actually means maybe one of you Canadians that watch this eh could uh convert it over for us eh there's our empty weight right

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