[RobertHaas]

Originally Posted by kennyw

You just need to get it on a scale to figure out the weight. They can be found at truck stops and grain elevators across the country.

Alternately, you can estimate the weight with four sheets of paper, pencil, tape measure, and an air pressure gauge.

Drive the truck on top of the four papers (preferably on a hard flat surface like concrete), trace the contact surface of each tire on the paper, drive off and collect the papers, marking which corner they came from.

Then, measure the length and width of the contact patch in inches.

Measure the air pressure in each tire.

Estimate the % of that contact patch that is tread (how much do you remove for gaps between the tread).

To calculate force on the ground, use:
length (in) x width (in) x pressure (psi) x % of tread contact = force (pounds) at that tire

Nope,

that does not even come close to doing a thing but waste 4 pieces of paper and making the person doing look completely insane.

Was this supposed to be posted on April 1st?