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PostSubject: A Guide to motorhome weight issues   A Guide to motorhome weight issues I_icon_minitimeMon 4 Feb 2013 - 9:27

Here is a guide to all the weight meanings, its a complicated issue so this might help

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PostSubject: Re: A Guide to motorhome weight issues   A Guide to motorhome weight issues I_icon_minitimeMon 4 Feb 2013 - 9:38

That mske it clear how mesn of us are over loaded
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PostSubject: Re: A Guide to motorhome weight issues   A Guide to motorhome weight issues I_icon_minitimeMon 4 Feb 2013 - 10:32

That's great as all my weight is at the front

"When adding weight behind the rear axle the back tyre becomes a pivot point meaning any added weight will increase the load on the rear axle but actually decrease it on the front one."
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PostSubject: Re: A Guide to motorhome weight issues   A Guide to motorhome weight issues I_icon_minitimeMon 4 Feb 2013 - 11:57

Hia


totally confused ---nothing changed there then but not to worry
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PostSubject: Re: A Guide to motorhome weight issues   A Guide to motorhome weight issues I_icon_minitimeMon 4 Feb 2013 - 13:04

As long as do not add more than your total pay load the french police will weigh all four wheeld a same time if over your max weight you will be sleeping under stars
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PostSubject: Re: A Guide to motorhome weight issues   A Guide to motorhome weight issues I_icon_minitimeMon 4 Feb 2013 - 13:05

You can't trust payload figures! It is actual maximum gross weight that counts and neither axle can be overloaded.
Very many vans are overloaded when their grey waste tank is full Laughing

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PostSubject: Re: A Guide to motorhome weight issues   A Guide to motorhome weight issues I_icon_minitimeMon 4 Feb 2013 - 13:20

Has anyone ever been stopped and had there motorhome weight checked, not heard from a third party actually stopped themselves and had the weight of there motorhome checked.

Be very interested as sometimes this question gets the same results as gassing and a frames every one knows some one ?
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PostSubject: Re: A Guide to motorhome weight issues   A Guide to motorhome weight issues I_icon_minitimeMon 4 Feb 2013 - 13:24

Only in works van may years ago
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PostSubject: Re: A Guide to motorhome weight issues   A Guide to motorhome weight issues I_icon_minitimeMon 4 Feb 2013 - 14:01

I do think it is important to keep within the vehicle weight limits, but the problem also manifests itself when confronted by these 3.5 ton limit signs, that seem to becoming wide spread thought out France and other European countries.

I was told some time ago on a German based web forum that the 3.5 ton limit signs in Austria that have a van or lorry shape on them can be ignored by motorhomes, as they are directed at commercial vehicles.

However if there is a 3.5 ton limit sign with no pictures on them then if you are over 3.5 don't go down there as the sign is probably directed at a weak bridge or road surface, which seem to make sense,

I apply this logic throughout Europe ? and keep my fingers crossed
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PostSubject: Re: A Guide to motorhome weight issues   A Guide to motorhome weight issues I_icon_minitimeMon 4 Feb 2013 - 14:40

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However if there is a 3.5 ton limit sign with no pictures on them then if you are over 3.5 don't go down there as the sign is probably directed at a weak bridge or road surface, which seem to make sense,

Quite right Brian, as this picture shows the 3.5t weight limit and the picture is of a truck (commercial vehicle) so no trucks but m/hs can use this road as we did last year coming home from Spain, if the weight limit sign is blank (white background) then nothing over 3.5t can use the route.

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PostSubject: Re: A Guide to motorhome weight issues   A Guide to motorhome weight issues I_icon_minitimeMon 4 Feb 2013 - 18:42

I was confronted with a sign in France, forgot where but it came up so suddenly no advance warning and no where to turn around so I had to go through Shocked
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PostSubject: Re: A Guide to motorhome weight issues   A Guide to motorhome weight issues I_icon_minitimeMon 4 Feb 2013 - 18:48

Hi I have gone through many 3.5 ton signs but never when there is no vehicle sign as you could find the road can't take the weight



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Those eggs look like they are over 3.5t A Guide to motorhome weight issues 372028940
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