Overloading anomalies
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I KNOW THIS must sound like sour grapes, but I recently gained a conviction for overloading on axle weight, not gross eight. This was on an F12 hauling grain.
However, in Technical News on page 24 of CM, October 23 there is a vehicle which has a blatantly overloaded gross weight if not axle weights.
Fifty cattle at 14cwt would be 35 tons; at only 10cwt each tl load would be 25 tons. Five hundred sheep would be abo 20 tons, this on a unit which weighs 71/4 ton and a trailer which I would estimate at 9-1 tons.
My conviction was by accic but any driver who loads up such a vehicle does so knowingly. If the vehicle is correctly loaded it would probably carry on my estimat about 30 cattle or about 350-4 sheep. Unfortunately this wot hardly justify the £22,000 prio tag for the trailer, let alone thE price of £52,000 for the outfit. J. WILSON Huddersfield Technical editor, Bill Brock, explains: As you have found to your cost, there is more to loading vehicle than filling the payloe area.
The haulier needs to know 1 products and make adjustmei accordingly to avoid overloading.
The vehicle in question cost about £3,500 more than for conventional builds but provides extra capacity of abo 3.5 tonnes; just what that relates to in terms of cattle or sheep depends on the size oft beasts. While the majority of c readers are UK based, CM is read in some countries where the physical capacity is the ma criteria. — Editor.