Are you overweight?

The tilting of Americans toward obeisity is not only limited to our bodies, but toward our rigs also. Just because the newer rigs are chock full of lockers and cabinets doesn't mean that we have to fill them chock full of stuff.

Before you have an accident or mechanical failure due to overloading, get your rig weighed. Learn your GVWR and GAWR from your owners manual or from the manufacturer's website.

Then visit a scales at a Flying J truck stop, waste transfer station, or a public scales along a major highway to find out if you are overweight. If so, for your own safety as well as others on the road take off some weight.