Steep learning curve on parts and trailers

Michael

I bought mine from Modern Trailers, Main North Road. They have a website www.moderntrailers.com.au.

The trailer is just as well built as a similar one in Melbourne but it is $1000 cheaper. That speaks for itself.

How can you believe someone who has a funny gait!!!
You will be very embarassed to get into a discussion on the AFL.
Wombie, haven't you heard the story of how god created the earth with good and bad spread evenly across it. When he got around to creating Australia, he created South Australia to be paradise and to offset the perfection, he placed Victoria alongside it.
In spite of all your faults, your really not a bad bloke, just stay on your side of the fence. LOL

Of course, I agree with you totally Mr Lexic. What you say is the truth and don't ever let anyone try to convince you, or your fellow pseudo-poms that SA is not the paradise you believe it to be.

. . . and I'll definitely take your advice and stay on this side of the fence!!!

David

Now you got me. I am not sure.

The weight of the trailer unladen is 453kg. It is purported to be a 750kg trailer. According to my rego papers there are no GVM numbers.

I have an old 6x4 garden trailer and used to load 1.5ton GVM regularly to it and it still does the job.

I am expecting to have a GVM on the trailer around 900kgs give and take. I am running 265/75/16's. If when fully laden, the tyres do not have enough clearance, I will fit Polyairs

If the trailer has no brakes on it then its GVM is 750kg so you minus the tare weight of 453kg gives you a load capacity of 297kg.
If you want to carry more weight then you have to fit brakes or lighten up the tare weight. Going over the GVM limits voids your insurance, rego & as the driver you can be charged by the transport dept but also by the police if your vehicle is involved in an accident regardless of whos fault it is. This also applies to 4x4's overloaded past there GVM limits.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but I thought this might help.
Chhers

While you are talking of GVMs etc.
I was looking at my trailer ans it is rated at 750kg GTM, which I assume is gross trailer mass.
The alko web site talks of GTM and ATM, ATM being aggregate trailer mass.
http://www.alko.com.au/vehicle/springs/adr_spring.html

Now it seems that GTM is load plus trailer mass on the axle, while ATM is the total mass, i.e. trailer mass plus load plus hitch load/mass.

Assuming hitch load is 10% of ATM, that roughly means that a trailer of 750kg GTM, and trailer mass of say 500kg, can actually carry a load of 250kg plus a further 10% of 250 kg as hitch load, or 275kg total load?
I would assume the ATM would be 750+10% = 825kg?

Splitting hairs I know, but interesting if it is true.

The alko web site also quotes the ADRs as 750kg GTM unbraked, not 750kg ATM.
http://www.alko.com.au/vehicle/drum_brakes/adr.html.

What do you reckon?

Ingenious

Yes You are right. I have 749kg GTM stamped on the compliance plate.

Most of the time the trailer will be well under the GTM mark and only on very long trips where I will be carrying extra fuel loads, it may go over the limit.

Insurance? Do not have insurance except 3rd party. Accidents? Have to be careful, hey?

Cops or Transport authorities...I couldn't care less. The chances of being weighed is neglegible. We live in an over governed society which tries to instill fear in to persons straying from the selected path. I am not afraid and I stray every now and then.

My bubble is still intact!

Willems bubble gets busted, LOL

The Insurance I was refering to, is your compulsary third party person on your registration, you can & will be personaly sued by the injured parties even by the passengers in your vehicle if your insurance is voided, even if it doesn't get voided the insurance company can still come after you for recovering payout cost & legal expenses. The police can charge you with manslauter if someone is killed as a direct result of a failure attributed to the overloading. eg. wheel comes off & kills a pedestrian or into an oncoming vehicles windscreen etc.
I know you think this might be a little extreme, but peoples lives are changed forever every single day due to slight oversights or bending the rules a little too far, the courts don't allow for pleas of ignorance any more. As far as the law is concerned the rules are available to all, if we choose not to know them or don't follow them then it's our problem not theirs.

With regards to ATM & GTM & TARE weights you are only allowed to use what is stamped on your plate. eg. If your plate only has a TARE & GTM stamped then GTM is the maximum total weight of everything including the hitch load. ATM takes it one step further, it specifies the hitch load max weight as well.

Just remember I'm not giving you guys a hard time, I'm simply trying to help all those that get to read this!!!
Cheers & Happy Travels

Ingenious

IF....IF.....IF You an undertaker or something?

What a misery guts! lol

I am well aware of all the crap that may befall one if the wheels should fall off, but I do not let it interfere with my life.

DID YOU KNOW? That under the Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife Act the interpretation is that you are liable to prosecution if you should break a blade of grass on the roadside verge in a National Park. All things to the extreme!

If I had to live my life to the protocols that exist as you have suggested then I might as well stay in bed.