Dual cab front axle overloading

G'day RA,

Well after reading most of the procedural requirements that an employee is required to perform before going anywhere or doing anything I take back any negative comments I may have been guilty of uttering about government employees being a lazy bunch and taking forever to get a job done.
HOLY PROCEEDURAL PAPERWORK BATMAN.
Can you just imagine a couple of fair sized blokes of to do a job in their dual cab ute.
First weigh each individual in case he/she weighs in excess of 100 kg and deduct that amount from the payload.
Then determine the weight of any equipment, tools, whatever that may be needed.
Now get your tape measure and determine how far from the axle centers these loads are to be positioned.

ZZZZZ......huh???? oh yeah go and get a LARGE cup of coffee, (being careful of course that the consumption of excess caffeine doesn't compromise any future drug testing) because by now my eyes are starting to glaze over.....lol

Cheers
Pop

The overloading of dual cab utes has been a very real issue for a very long time.....but it is no lesser issue than the overloading of station waggon 4WDs.

I don't know how may dual cab utes I see every day dragging there asses down the road because they have nothing in the front and the whole payload minus the driver sitting behind the rear axle.

One thing we need to undestand is that most passenger carrying is designed around a 75Kg person.

Walk around most building sites and you will be hard pressed to find too many under 75Kg......I don't know about other posters, but I and my doctor would be very happy If I was 75KG..but I'm not.

OH then you look at the published towing capacities on some of these utes, and realise that to achieve that towing capacity the carried load has to be reduced.
For example the mall weight has to be deducted from the payload carried

On another forum, one of the learned members posted a spread sheet of most of the modern utes listing towing capacity, GVM, permissable ball weight, gross combination masm and some other stats.

It was very interesting.

One of the utes with a generous towing allowance..it worked out to tow capacity, all you would have in the ute was a reasoably slim driver, and equally slim mate, their lunch and a small too box.

One poster on another forum was scratching his head why he was over loaded in his nice station waggon 4wd.
The original spec's where posted, showing about 600KG total payload, the probable weight of accessories, gear and those aboard and he was hundreds of KG over weight.

Look at some of these waggons with 600ish KG payloads even unadorned by accessories.....If you put 5 average blokes, an overnight bag each and slab of beer ( no ice) and you have just about pulled up the weight limit.

People do take carrying capacity very much for granted.

cheers