If you go down to the weighbridge today, you're in for a BIG surprise......
Submitted: Friday, May 09, 2008 at 14:12
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Willem
Sing that along the lines of the Teddybears Picnic song...........
So there I was, ealy this morning, saying should I or shouldn't I?
Have not weighed the fully laden trailer before and have sort of worked out what the weight might be taking the base weight into consideration and adding the gear stored therein.
Well its an 84km return trip to the weighbridge and with fuel costing aplenty, I dithered for a while, but then decided to go.
The GQ is 100kg under GVM fully fuelled less occupants.
The 7x4 bush trailer.....I'm not saying in case I incriminate myself...lol
Even if I remove some of the unnecessary gear packed in the trailer I might still be over the GVM.
I do carry extra fuel in the trailer though, so it gets lighter the further we travel.
Sheeeesh!!!!!!!
Cheers
Reply By: traveller2 - Friday, May 09, 2008 at 15:10
Friday, May 09, 2008 at 15:10
Yes Willem can get very scary, pity most don't weigh their rigs when going on hols.
If they did they might not feel so bad about the fuel consumption, poor performance, tyre wear, drivetrain wear etc.
When we had the troopy (s) they consistently weighed over 4t when loaded for an outback trip, then we hooked the camper on the back, no wonder the climb over the divide when heading west from
sydney was a long day.
Always remember the weighbridge operator at the Alice years ago refusing to write the weight down, would only give it to me verbally, said it was for my own protection, on that occasion troopy weighed 4.1T plus the camper on the back.
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