Overloaded

[backload]

I was overloaded the other day loaded 48 ton payload on 44 ton vehicle gross 64 ton, when I got to the delivery they told me was supposed to do it in 2 trips 24 ton, well it all fit on and it was only 2 miles down the road. Just a little mistake in a new job

[ovlov_jay]

We used to shunt 20ft sugar boxes from the quay in tilbury to carters just outside the dock. I’d get 4 at 11 on a Friday morning. Doubled up and in the car by 2

[andrewg]

backload:
I was overloaded the other day loaded 48 ton payload on 44 ton vehicle gross 64 ton, when I got to the delivery they told me was supposed to do it in 2 trips 24 ton, well it all fit on and it was only 2 miles down the road. Just a little mistake in a new job

Ive been overloaded before, but with a 13tonne gross drive axle you would never even notice. Problem is, even though it was ‘only down the road’ and your truck has a much higher design weight and not at all dangerous they wont take that into consideration, only the fact you were 4 tonne over…

[conor]

In the early 90s used to do a double load of hardboard from King George Dock in Hull to a timber merchants right opposite one of the gates, literally past security, across the traffic lights, turn immediately left. Lorry was ex-STGO so although plated at 38 tonnes had a design weight of over 65t so was quite happy doing it.

[olog_hai]

AndrewG:

backload:
I was overloaded the other day loaded 48 ton payload on 44 ton vehicle gross 64 ton, when I got to the delivery they told me was supposed to do it in 2 trips 24 ton, well it all fit on and it was only 2 miles down the road. Just a little mistake in a new job

Ive been overloaded before, but with a 13tonne gross drive axle you would never even notice. Problem is, even though it was ‘only down the road’ and your truck has a much higher design weight and not at all dangerous they wont take that into consideration, only the fact you were 4 tonne over…

Four? Try 20t over…

[swedish_blue]

Don’t the Dutch work on 10 Tonne per axle?

[dipper_dave]

Bloody hell, 20t overweight, think of the children.

Without getting to hysterical if caught your looking at instant prohibition plus a court appearence but crack on drive YOLO…

[peterm]

Call that over loaded… when I were a lad.

[paulnowak]

My mate once did a collection in his 12 tonner (bear in mind it could roughly carry 6 tonne)

Took an inch or 2 off his mudflaps coming back.

Bored night guy tipper decided to weigh what he’d brought back.

15.8 tonnes

Oh and they neglected to say it was an ADR load

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[reef]

Took a box bodied 7.5 tonner Ford Cargo to a public weighbridge years ago as the “Transport Manager” (I use that term loosely as even though that was his title he was not qualified as such, just a former driver who organised the runs) didn’t believe my suspicions that it was well overloaded, it weighed in at over 9 tonne…
He still doubted me as he said “but that doesn’t make any sense, we know the average weight of the goods and they come to barely 6 tonnes, well within the 7.5 tonne limit”, I then enlightened him to what GVW meant and that the truck was nearly 3.5 tonnes empty (had one of those old heavy ■■■ steel tail lifts that was half a tonne by itself) to which he replied, “so you’re telling me we can only load 4 tonnes max on these?”, he was a sharp one him eh, see why he got the promotion to TM.

[james_the_cat]

The haulage version of Tourette’s. I hope you don’t blurt this stuff out at the dvsa check point like you do over the Internet