On muckshifting, it’s virtually always paid on the load so any operator running overweight is losing revenue. They do it for say £150 per load and get weighed at the tip-charged by the ton. So if the tip charge £7 per ton a 1 ton overload is £7 of profit lost already. Once our firm realised they were carrying stuff for free (and an overloaded wagon tipped over on the tip and was written off) they soon fitted weighers and the advanced digital ones paid for themselves in a year or so. Fifteen 6 wheelers all a ton over is one load moved for free…
Muckaway:
On muckshifting, it’s virtually always paid on the load so any operator running overweight is losing revenue. They do it for say £150 per load and get weighed at the tip-charged by the ton. So if the tip charge £7 per ton a 1 ton overload is £7 of profit lost already. Once our firm realised they were carrying stuff for free (and an overloaded wagon tipped over on the tip and was written off) they soon fitted weighers and the advanced digital ones paid for themselves in a year or so. Fifteen 6 wheelers all a ton over is one load moved for free…
Unless this time there’s a customer who pays by the tonne. 
In which case he needs one of these wagons. 