On 9/9/24 19:39, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
Am Mo., 9. Sept. 2024 um 10:55 Uhr schrieb Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com>:
It has nothing to do with the vehicle specification.
The sign is there to stop the destruction of the way through
overloading
the structure, thus an unload hgv may meet the required weight
limit and
use the way, but when loaded exceed the weigh limit and not be
able to
use the same way.
it may depend on the area, but around here restrictions relating to
actual weight are rather rare, because they are impractical to verify,
while weight ratings can be seen in the vehicle documents and are easy
to check.
Public and private weigh brides exist in Australia, portable and fixed
ones are used by the roads authority to check vehicles are not
overloaded. So these are both practical,do exist and get used. Weigh
limits on bridges are like speed limits, so there is a legal obligation
to know the actual weigh or at least that the weight is well below the
limit for the bridge.
In the UK weigh bridges are not unusual at suppliers to document the
weight of goods supplied along with checking the vehicles maximum weight
is not exceeded.
Is this yet another tag that has been 'misinterpreted'?
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