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The

Road

what you are towing can avoid this risk and

make your driving and towing experience safer

and more enjoyable.

Cargo Carrying Capacity

and

Load

Distribution

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NOTE 1

Cargo Carrying Capacities (CCC)

your motor

home are specified

a label affixed

the

inside

the motor home.

The

label includes all factory

installed options.

other equipment such as leveling

jacks, awnings, roof

pods,

etc., are installed after

the

motor home leaves

the

factory

the

weight

these

items must be subtracted

from

the

total

the

pas-

senger and cargo carrying capacities.

The amount

cargo weight you can place in

your motor home

the motor home's GVWR

minus its UVW,

maximum capacity minus the

weight

your motor home

assembled by

Fleetwood, i.e., without dealer installed

accessories, water, LP gas, cargo or occupants.

When the motor home

being designed, the

number and size

storage compattments, the

liquid tank capacities and number

belted seat-

ing positions are determined for value and

convenience. If you fill all liquid tanks to capac-

ity, fill all storage compartments and cupboards

to maximum volume and fill all available seating

positions with passengers, the motoi' home could

be overloaded.

(See

Tips).

Be aware

the weight

the items you store, where you

store the items in your motor home, and weigh

your motor home after it

fully loaded.

In addition to knowing the overall weight that

can be safely loaded in or attached to the motor

home, you must know how to distribute the

weight so that correct amounts

weight are dis-

tributed between the axles or front-to-rear and

also between the wheels or side-to-side.

also

important

place heavier items in under-the-

floor storage or low in the motor home.

you

make the motor home top heavy or much

too

heavy on one side, the motor home can be over-

tumed and crash in a curve, tum or in an emer-

gency steering maneuver. When the load

prop-

05-4

erly distributed, your motor home will handle

and respond safely, and you as the driver can be

more confident and will be more comfortable.

your motor home

improperly loaded, it may

be unsafe

drive, uncomfortable to drive,

both. Axle load

important and it

recom-

mended that you should load your motor home

so that the front axle

loaded to at least 80%

the front GA WR.

How

to Weigh Your Loaded

Motor

Home

Refer to your local telephone directory

find a

public weigh station. The following prqcedures

will help you detelmine whether your loaded

motor home (complete with cargo, fluids, passen-

gers, and driver)

within GAWR, GVWR, and

GCWR limits. When you an'ive at a weigh sta-

tion, the attendant will guide you through the cor-

rect positioning

the motor home on the scales.

Your

must be weighed fully loaded, that is,

with passengers, food, clothing, fuel, water, pro-

pane, supplies, etc. Any towed vehicle

(cat·/

pickup, boat or trailer) or item loaded on brackets

on the back

the

RV,

such as bikes or motor-

cycles, should also be included in the weighing.

The following steps

at'e

suggested and are illus-

trated

the following pages:

1. Pull onto the scale so that only the front

axle is on the platform (with the end

the

scale midway between the front and rear

axles), and record the scaled weight.

2. Pull forward until the full unit is on the

scale, and record the scaled weight.

3. Pull forward so that only the

reat· axle is on

the scale (again with the edge

the scale

midway between the front and rear axles),

and record the scaled weight.

the

has a rear tag axle, pull forward

so that only the tag axle remains

the

scale, and record the scaled weight.

determine individual wheel position weights,

necessary to repeat the first three steps, but

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