Can someone run me through how you work out the weight limit on a 7.5ton waggon,no trailer, ie how much it can carry as i think some off our vehicles arnt weighted up correctly from looking at there tickets from weigh bridges.
I can give you the details on 1 off the vehicles and what work has it down at carrying and then someone take me through how you work out its carrying weight, ie stock on board less palletts and pallett truck as i have there weight and can deduct these at a later date.
Here goes
Gross weight 7500kg
Train weight 11000kg
Axle 1 3400kg
Axle 2 5000kg
weighbridge 4700kg
work worked out from the above figures that it could then carry 2860kg
That is the maximum permitted weight of the vehicle when it it loaded with goods, fuel, driver etc.
The train weight is the combined maximum permitted weight of vehicle as above plus a trailer.
Assuming the vehicle is 4700kg with fuel and driver but no goods then your payload is 2800kg that could be 2500kg of stock plus 300 of pallets & truck or whatever but not to exceed 7500kg.
The combined axle weights add up to more than 7500kg but you cannot exceed it, if you max the load on the rear axle at 5000kg, then you would only have 2500kg for the front axle. Likewise 3400kg on the front would be a max of 4100kg on the rear. Or combination of.
The 4700kg is what came back on the ticket from weigh bridge then someone in our office said the vehicle could hold 2800kg off goods but from the above figures i dont know how they got the 2800kg of goods without knowing if it could be over weight or not.
We have similar vehicles and they have different weight to these thats why i wanted to check this and how its worked out so then i can go double check them so there not going out over loaded and get pulled by vosa.
paul1968uk:
The 4700kg is what came back on the ticket from weigh bridge then someone in our office said the vehicle could hold 2800kg off goods but from the above figures i dont know how they got the 2800kg of goods without knowing if it could be over weight or not.
if it was empty when they weighed it, the 4700kg is the unladen weight.
It’s Gross ( maximum) weight is 7500kg so you deduct the unladen weight from the Gross weight to get payload.
hitch:
re ton
a ton is imperial
a tonne is metric
all weights are now given as metric
1 ton = 1.016 tonne
Although correct, that may confuse him more.
The transport industry in general use TONNES which equal 1000 Kilograms
The TON was split into Tons, CWT (Hundredweights) and QTR (Quarters) which as Hitch said 1016kg
However in the land of the free and the relatively stupid, they use their own measurement, they buy in dollars, they weigh in pounds and use a different measure for liquids. Gallons against US Gallons.
The American Ton is equal to 2000 Lbs which is only equal to 907.2 kg. So although they have those big butch looking trucks with fancy engines and no comfort, the weight limits in the US is 80,000 Lbs which they call 40 Tonnes. So with all their willy waving, double drive trucks and 53’ trailers, they can only gross out at a lowly 36288kg. The same as our cute little Volvo F7 in 1992
hitch:
re ton
a ton is imperial
a tonne is metric
all weights are now given as metric
1 ton = 1.016 tonne
Although correct, that may confuse him more.
The transport industry in general use TONNES which equal 1000 Kilograms
The TON was split into Tons, CWT (Hundredweights) and QTR (Quarters) which as Hitch said 1016kg
However in the land of the free and the relatively stupid, they use their own measurement, they buy in dollars, they weigh in pounds and use a different measure for liquids. Gallons against US Gallons.
The American Ton is equal to 2000 Lbs which is only equal to 907.2 kg. So although they have those big butch looking trucks with fancy engines and no comfort, the weight limits in the US is 80,000 Lbs which they call 40 Tonnes. So with all their willy waving, double drive trucks and 53’ trailers, they can only gross out at a lowly 36288kg. The same as our cute little Volvo F7 in 1992
hitch:
re ton
a ton is imperial
a tonne is metric
all weights are now given as metric
1 ton = 1.016 tonne
Although correct, that may confuse him more.
The transport industry in general use TONNES which equal 1000 Kilograms
The TON was split into Tons, CWT (Hundredweights) and QTR (Quarters) which as Hitch said 1016kg
However in the land of the free and the relatively stupid, they use their own measurement, they buy in dollars, they weigh in pounds and use a different measure for liquids. Gallons against US Gallons.
The American Ton is equal to 2000 Lbs which is only equal to 907.2 kg. So although they have those big butch looking trucks with fancy engines and no comfort, the weight limits in the US is 80,000 Lbs which they call 40 Tonnes. So with all their willy waving, double drive trucks and 53’ trailers, they can only gross out at a lowly 36288kg. The same as our cute little Volvo F7 in 1992
245 Horsepower at 36 tonne
700 Horsepower at 36 Tonne
But how good would an F7 be when you’re living with the thing for a week or 2,and climbing moutains and zb great big long drag inclines for mile after mile at 36 t pulling a Brit type height trailer to go under yank bridges .
But I’ve given up trying to make the case for double drive in zb weather when running with low axle weights to stop the roads ending up like ours for those who can’t understand the idea.
But just think of all those lost sales that Volvo missed out on and all that comfort that those yank drivers missed out on by not shipping loads of the zb things into the States and using those instead of those big nasty overpowered oversized yank trucks.
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