LORRY WEIGHTS

[chriscrogul]

I am selling my lorry (due to living in the LEZ, thanks Ken Livingstone, you celebrator of Palm Sunday)! and some viewers wanted to know the weight of my lorry. So off I went to the weighbridge and had a BIG shock! It's a 7.5 ton Leyland Daf, admittedly it is downrated from 10 ton which will increase the weight, but the body is a steel frame aluminium jobby, 16' long. It has very basic living. I was very surprised when it weighed in at 5.6 ton! Considering that when I was evading paying parking tickets (ahem) in my ancient TK, 25' long in total, wooden frame/sides, I took it to be weighed and it was 41/4 tons! So who on here has a weight certificate, how much is it, and what is it ie make of cab/chassis, and body type.

Thankyou in advance!!!

 

[pathelschoice]

ours weigh on the coachbuilt "warwick" build - 5.7 tonnes unladen - well to be honest its more of a kerb weight than unladen weight. thats based on an Iveco Euro cargo (nice light chassis) full luxury living - stalled for 3. a Conversion will weigh more

 

[chriscrogul]

Thanks pathelschoice, but could you tell me the difference between kerb/unladen weight please?

 

[SSM]

Ours is 5.5tons and you have to take into consideration - EVERYTHING you put inside including water and fuel.

 

[pathelschoice]

ok - unladen weight is the vehicle devoid of any liquids - ie: water - both fresh and for the engine, washers etc , fuel, brake fluid etc, but to be realistic how could we drive our lorries to the weigh bridge without those eh? a kerb weight is with all the above on the vehcile ie: full water and fuel tanks - a kerb weight is a better bench mark as you know then your actual capacity / payload.

 

[chriscrogul]

Gotcha!

 

[Happytohack]

Ours is a DAF. Built for us to take two huge heavy horses facing forwards. Side & rear ramps, fitted living. Took it to the weighbridge and, with two people in it, plus full diesel and water tanks, it weighs 6090kgs. As we only ever take one heavy out at a time, we have plenty of weight to play with.

 

[humblepie]

Ours prior to fitting out the living was 5000 kg, we have fitted it out being really really weight concious as should we want to sell it in the future the weight will be important - people are really becoming more concious of this.

 

[Tiffany]

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ours weigh on the coachbuilt "warwick" build - 5.7 tonnes unladen - well to be honest its more of a kerb weight than unladen weight. thats based on an Iveco Euro cargo (nice light chassis) full luxury living - stalled for 3. a Conversion will weigh more

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If that's your box in siggy it looks lovely - did you buy it locally?

 

[Tiffany]

Mine's a 6.25t Ford Iveco with decent living. It's very easy to drive and carries two horses.

 

[pathelschoice]

ooops we build those lorries ... we can build one for you

 

[miller]

I have a Bedford TL 860 (10 tonne downrated) with a 16ft GRP body, very basic living (cupboards + saddle/bridle racks) - it weighs in at 4840kgs - just about to put it onto a MAN 8.153 M plate - anyone have any idea how much heavier the MAN is likely to be? We only carry 2 16.2hh's so well in on weight but would like to reclad the body and obv don't want to mess ourselves up!

 

[chriscrogul]

Thanks everyone, you've put my mind at rest!

 

[mcooper]

Unladen weight is thew weight of an empty lorry with body on + full tank of fuel and driver.
Gross weight is the maximum weight that any one lorry can weigh loaded.

 

[chriscrogul]

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Unladen weight is thew weight of an empty lorry with body on + full tank of fuel and driver.
Gross weight is the maximum weight that any one lorry can weigh loaded.

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Thanks, but that wasn't what I was asking, I know that the maximum weight of my lorry when loaded mustn't exceed 7.5 tons, it weighs 5.6 tons empty, I thought it wouldn't have weighed that much so I wanted some comparisons with other people's lorries!

 

[RobinHood]

Our old lorry was a Bedford TL with an 18ft box and absolutely no living. It weighed 5.1 tonnes. Our current lorry is again a bedford TL (first one was written off in an accident

) but this time with a 28ft box and fitted living. It's stalled for 5 elephants but it weighs 6.1 tonnes so we can only put 2 horses in it. We're in the LEZ too so we've had to go back to a trailer

 

[chriscrogul]

I've got round the LEZ by buying a petrol TK. I don't really travel much further than 15 miles or so to compete so shouldn't find the running costs too awful. I adored my Daf, I bought the cab/chassis and then the body because I just couldn't find what I wanted in my price range. I spent a fortune on it, knowing I'd never recoup that money, but thinking I'd have a good lorry until I was too old to compete any more! Knowing my luck, the day I sell it will be the day Boris scraps the LEZ!