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It's so very easy to be overweight. A lesson to us all.

I would never trust the MIRO figures on original documents. Good luck with the pruning.

Jim

Excellent advice. That is certainly a cheap weigh charge. It's surprising to find out how much stuff we tend to put in our caravan too. We always empty it right out when it goes for service, I wish I'd popped it along the road & weight it when it was empty now you've posted this.

Now you know the loaded weight of your caravan, is your car large enough to allow you to go to Alvis Bros & weigh your empty car, load it with the contents of the caravan & go & weigh it again then deduct this load weight from the weight of your loaded caravan to accertain the unladen weight of your caravan.

If you tell the weighbridge operator you're taring your car & will return to weigh it loaded shortly you should only pay one weighing charge, lorries often come to my workplace & tare weigh before going off to load then return to weigh loaded & only pay one charge because they only have one printed ticket.

My van will certainly be weighed next time it empty as I'm convinced we overload when we take everything we need, this has caused us to take two vehicles when we go away for long stays.

BB

Quote: Originally posted by Basilbrush on 17/7/2011

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]If you tell the weighbridge operator you're taring your car & will return to weigh it loaded shortly you should only pay one weighing charge, lorries often come to my workplace & tare weigh before going off to load then return to weigh loaded & only pay one charge because they only have one printed ticket.
Hi BB
The ticket has space for 1st and 2nd weight, but i did not think until i had left that i should of had car weighed also, i have been to caravan today and weighed items as i removed them, i have very little left on the van now and i have even removed the table(7.1kgs)as we tend to eat outside.
I was getting to the point where i thought i may have to remove the spare wheel.
I am taking van for service in a couple of weeks and will return to alvis bros to weigh car and van.
I can only think that spare wheel battery and electric hook up lead are not part of the MIRO.    

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