Weight estimation for level load of Leylandii wood in single cab pickup

[briscoe]

24 minutes ago, Clutchy said:

This was a typical, and what I assumed was an underweight load of ash chip, just me in the van and no tools. Came in at 4,220kg 

 

2017 transit MWB tipper single cab, ply and steel frame 'arb back'

 

The older transit  (2008) we had with a similar size load from same job was 3,660kg 

 

With the up to 30% overweight just being a fine which I'd be happy to pay, is the 30% calculated on pay load or on the 3.5t weight? As in could you weigh 4,550kg before risking court/points? Guessing its payload 😞 

So you were 720kg overweight? How high was the chip stacked? What sort of fine you talking for this- 3 points and £100?

[Mark Bolam]

11 hours ago, Justme said:

You had to pass the c1e test to get 12000kg. Not just the car test.

I found my old paper licence which clearly shows C1E up to 12000kg.

 

I only ever did the car test.

[Justme]

24 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

I found my old paper licence which clearly shows C1E up to 12000kg.

 

I only ever did the car test.

It was taken off you back in 97.

 

Every licence holder got a letter plus it was all over the tv too.

 

If you wanted to keep the full fat version you had to claim it with evidence that you had been using it. If I remember right you had a year to make the claim.

Just keeping the old paper licence did not let you keep the 12000kg allowance.

[Mark Bolam]

That makes sense, although I can’t remember getting a letter, and didn’t watch much tv back then.

 

I wasn’t using it anyway, so doubt I could have argued it.

 

They are still bastards for taking it though.

They have taken my dreams, and my future.

[GarethM]

Please be careful how you write your protest placard tho as I sense "Weights not dates" might get you hauled away!.

[Clutchy]

21 hours ago, briscoe said:

So you were 720kg overweight? How high was the chip stacked? What sort of fine you talking for this- 3 points and £100?

Something like this:

 

 

[Mark Bolam]

Are you taking the piss?

There’s not 720 there in the first place!

 

[Clutchy]

To be fair, not the picture I weighed on, id say 20% more when i got weighed but it definitely isn't what i call a proper load 

 

 

Goes to show how little the new transits can take once you add a couple of tool boxes and an arb back 

 

 

Does anyone know if having a trailer weighs the van down more? Guessing only by 50kg or so 

[Mark Bolam]

My DC Tranny goes 2850 on the bridge with 2 of us, tools and dog in the cab.

Leaves a payload of 650.

 

It’s f-all really.

 

2.4m3 bed space without sides (which I have), and fresh conny chip going about 300kg/m3, if I’m level, I’m loaded.

 

Then reality kicks in…..

 

I just pop another Stella for every additional 50kg.

[Dan Maynard]

Whereas 7m3 of connie chip in my trailer - still 300kg under limit.

 

Tempting to put 7m3 of logs in though, that wouldn't be.