I am moving to Florida from Pennsylvania and I need to weigh my car empty and weigh it again packed so I can get reimbursed for the move. I am not really sure where I can get my car weighed and get a certified weight slip. Has anyone had any experience with this and give me some help, thanks!
-Jason

 

try a rock quarry or a recycling center. they usually have scales.

or you can try this:

Weighing a car is a tough challenge, but we've put our heads together and figured out we can do it using our old pal, air pressure. Here's what you're going to need.

• Two pieces of posterboard.
• A ruler
• A pencil
• A tire pressure gauge
• A car

Remember, a car is a big, heavy object that can roll on top of you. So make sure you're with a grown-up and the car is turned off and parked on a flat surface. Set the emergency brake, too.

1. Push a piece of the posterboard under a tire in front as far as it will go and another piece of posterboard behind the tire.

2. Measure the gap between the two pieces of posterboard.

3. Then put the posterboard under the sides of the tire and measure the gap.

We're measuring the tire's footprint, or the part of the tire that touches the road. Now we need to measure the air inside the tire with our tire pressure gauge. Car tires are a lot like balloons. They're filled with air that pushes out in all directions. The tire pressure gauge measures how hard the air inside the tire is pushing out on the tire's walls.

4. Measure the tire pressure.

5. Multiply the first two measurements (the distances between the posterboards) to get the size of the tire's footprint.

6. Multiply the size of the tire's footprint (its area in square inches) by the air pressure (its pounds per square inch).
The number you get from these calculations tells you how much weight that tire is holding up.

7. Now do the calculations for the other three tires.

8. Add the results from all four tires together.
The more weight a tire holds up, the more that tire is flattened against the road and the bigger its footprint. So, if you know the size of a tire's footprint and the pressure of the air inside the tire, you can figure out how much weight that tire is holding up. And if you add the weight each tire is holding up, you know the general weight of the car. Check your cars owners manual for its official weight. If you come within ten percent, you've done a great job!

 

I'd phone around to a few places, or better yet take a drive through a few close-by industrial parks. Most recycling stations have them. As do feed mills, grain elevators, rendering plants, animal processing facilities, and refuse sites(garbage dumps). It's best to drive up and speak to these types of facilities in person, as doing so makes it pretty hard for them to say no.

I suppose you could visit a few highway commercial scales commonly used for heavy trucks, but those guys can be a little stringent at times.


Terry

 

Take a trip to Ohio and visit Water-s.

 

recycling center

 

http://www.catscale.com/

 

 

There are two recycling centers in the area here and they both have scales.

So, to add to what a few already said... check one of those out

 

landfill or recycling center