Going over the scales

[DX grunt]

How full or empty should your truck be when it goes over the scales?

Please give examples?

Rossco

[NissanGQ4.2]

Are you referring to your Patrol which is not a truck or a truck???

[taslucas]

How full or empty should your truck be when it goes over the scales?

Please give examples?

Rossco

Depends what your trying to weigh.
Empty, to see how much it weighs when empty.....
Full, to see what your gross vehicle mass (gvm) is.
Then you can subtract the first from the second to work out how heavy your load is.

Tap, crackle, pop

[lorrieandjas]

Hi mate - another thing I look for is Basic Empty Weight which is the weight including full fuel and lubes, driver but empty of cargo which in addition to what taslucas has indicated is also useful to know - because basically empty weight while good to know isn't really all that practical because I don't count fuel and driver as load (they're kind of a necessity!).

Jas