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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 3502338" data-attributes="member: 26737">The GVWR and GAWR are telling you two different things. The GVWR is telling you the maximum weight of the trailer and load; the GAWR is telling you how much the axles can carry. Given your numbers, your axle is rated to carry more than the trailer itself can carry, which means they don't actually figure into your payload calculations (i.e, they're not a limiting factor). To find out if your trailer is overloaded, take it empty and run it across the scales somewhere to find out how much it weighs, then subtract that from the GVWR. That will tell you how much payload it can (legally) carry. F'rinstance, if your trailer weighs 1,000lbs empty, your 2,990lb GWVR means your trailer can carry 1,990lbs of cargo, which means you probably don't want to carry anything on the trailer with the Mule and mortar.Where to get your trailer weighed is a bigger question. I know the coop at Wayne turns around the readout on their scales after hours so you can weigh things, and other coops might do the same. If you're in the Tulsa area, there's a set of scales just off the BA on the west side of Aspen behind the hotel that houses Shiloh's restaurant. I don't know if it's technically open to the public, but it's not fenced in and I haven't seen any signs saying it's not open. (I haven't tried to use it, so I don't know if it requires payment, etc.)As for towing that load, most CUVs could tow 1850lbs of load on a trailer pretty easily. An F-150 won't even notice that's behind it; some of them could carry that much in their beds. If the trailer is properly loaded (10-25% tongue weight), you're only looking at using 180-200lbs of the truck's payload rating, which isn't much at all.</blockquote>

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