Roof rack
Ladders
It gross vehicle weight that THE LAW -VOSA-TEST YOU ON
I know I was 200 kg over in a transit 260 van with just 450 litres on my 2 man set up by pure freedom
I was lucky , dumped water let me off .
Now bought a transit T300
3000kg weight
It's all about GROSS VEHICLE WEIGHT
Why would a poler carry ladders of any substance?
And roof rack? Do me a flavour.
What was your payload, 800kg?
1,300kg (that's what OP has stated) is a lot.
He could fit a 1k tank and still have enough weight for his diesel, lunchbox & a flask.
Makes me laugh all the GVW warriors on here. How many if us are driving at 40 in a 30?
That's 33% over.
I suspect most of us have done that. I certainly have.
Country lane into a village 60 drops to 30, how many of us are doing 30 as we pass the sign? Not many I'd bet.
Kempy-you feel strongly cause you nearly got busted. Fair enough. But be realistic. A few kg's over is the same (perhaps less dangerous, as a percentage at least) as a few mph over.
I'll tell you what poleking, i will lay this out nice clear and simple, so hopefully you will understand!.
I have a lwb transit connect, it has a payload of 900kg, and a gvw of 2340kg, with me so far?
I have a 500l tank, that is 500kg of water, still with me?
I dont carry heaps of other stuff in my van as i am wfp only, i dont use a leisure battery (controller wired to van battery), and my r/o system lives at home, so as i say, the bare minimum in the van (oh, and by the way, i weigh about 90kg).
I have a customer who has a weighbridge on his property, a large farm.
I went over weighbridge with a full tank of water, the reading was 2300kg, only 40kg less than my gvw!.
So, despite my having, on paper, 400kg to spare, i have in actual fact, 40kg to spare. Yet you are suggesting that with 310kg (and that is assuming the payload is 1310kg, which it isnt), on paper, to spare, andyralph will have enough leeway for an extra man, an extra hose reel, possibly an extra pump, definately one, maybe two leisure batteries?!, seriously?, and you think i am an eejit!.
Us 'gvw warriors' may make you laugh, but i can assure you, not half as much as you make me laugh, ignorance is bliss eh?
The simple fact of the matter is, quoted payloads are simply the van's gvw minus the dry weight (no fuel,no engine fluids, no driver/passengers, etc) and therefore have as much relevance to reality as manufacturers quoted mpg figures!.
Not entirely sure about the point of your comparison between speeding and overloading. My van can probably do about 95mph flat out, the maximum speed limit in this country is 70mph, so my van is well within its capabilities at any speed i am likely to be driving at. Whereas if i am overloaded, i am exceeding my van's capabilities whatever speed i am doing. A van with a payload of 1500kg is going to have stronger suspension and stronger brakes than a van with a 1000kg payload, so it can deal with the extra weight, or do you not grasp the logic of that poleking?. If you are involved in a serious accident where there is any questions over who is at fault and the subsequent investigation reveals you are well over the vans gvw (which a hiace 300 with a 1000l tank and 2 operators would definately be, by some distance) you would be well and truly f****d.
