Overweight van - Onboard vehicle weighing

[meany]

Does anybody know of a cheap on board weighing system ?
It's for my Ford Transit T350 Tipper.

[GB_Groundworks]

i know its a upto £2500 fitted option from one firm, you get a pull by vosa etc?

see so many overloaded 3.5 tonners and 7.5 tonners, simply way to see is so get your limit so say 1 ton of mot from a bm with a weigher on their loader etc and you'll see how small it is. when loading with a machine its hard not to just fill up the truck.

this the payload 1609-1794kg (350 MWB, LWB)

http://www.commercialsafetysystems.co.uk/pdf....CSS.pdf



Edited By GB_Groundworks on 1300626523

[Dave_L]

Yep, can confirm the costing of £2500+VAT for a weigher system, just had one put on new lorry.

Never worth the risk otherwise.

Saw a transit tipper come out of the concrete works the other day with what must have been 1.5m3 of screed heaped up on the back - at 3.30pm!!!!!!! That was seriously overloaded....and it looked it.

[lutonlagerlout]

i saw 1 of the travelling community with 3 standard packs of 50mm block paving on the back
I am guessing that was 3tonnes,probably 1.5tonnes overweight
big fines for overloading ,we had £500 and £2000 for our second offence and that was 15 years ago
not worth the risk
but everyone gets tempted
LLL

[GB_Groundworks]

I was loading 20 ton 8 wheelers with a 22 ton machine and we'd worked it out at 3 ton a bucket full so was counting them in etc not doing to bad lads reporting their weight when they got back. Then weather changed started tipping it down so loaded one guy up with wet slop and he set off with his sheet off. By the time he'd got to the tip he was 7 ton over. He wasn't best pleased, most now have on board weighing and are pulling off when you've got like 19 tons in so you don't overload them

[flowjoe]

3.5K fine second time i got pulled for the weight.

Seen three lads pulled by Vosa in the last month towing small machines in Transit sized vans/tippers, seems to be the big thing at the minute the towing weight.

[Dave_L]

How much were you overweight by??

[local patios and driveway]

boys you got to say the words "im on my way to the weighbridge to check the weight right now" then you cannot be prosecuted. you will have to unload but thats a small price to pay

[michaelthegardener]

3.5K fine second time i got pulled for the weight.

Seen three lads pulled by Vosa in the last month towing small machines in Transit sized vans/tippers, seems to be the big thing at the minute the towing weight.

that also depends on when you passed your test i cant tow over 3.5 ton thats includeing the van fully loaded and what im towing i think because i passed my test after 97 and havent taken a towing test

[GB_Groundworks]

you cant tow more than 750kg or a trailer with a capacity greater than that even if its empty

[dig dug dan]

there is a system that won't tell you how much you have in weight on board, but will warn you if you are overloaded.
its called vanweigh

http://www.commercialsafetysystems.co.uk/products.html

[GB_Groundworks]

I posted that at the start of the thread

[dig dug dan]

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