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13/3/2017 at 1:48pm
Location: West Yorkshire
Outfit: Bessacarr Cameo 625 2011
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I sense your enthusiasm, but your weight and that of SWMBO and the dog, kids and luggage is irrelevant with regards to the 3500Kg licence limit. Only the plates on the car and caravan count, as mentioned several times
If you encounter a roadside check, they will look at the plate on the car, that specifies the Gross vehicle Weight and each axle weight limit.
With the van hitched, you would be asked to drive over a device which measures the load on each axle to show that the individual axles are not overloaded. Then,adding these values together with everyone in, shows that the GVW has not been exceeded (this is separate from having the correct licence).
Continuing forward the caravan axle(s)are similarly measured and compared to the MTPLM on the caravan's plate.
Note that the van remains hitched. This is because the caravans noseweight is a load on the towball and therefore the rear axle.
It follows that if you struggle to keep the caravan within the MTPLM, you can't just bung stuff willy-nilly in the boot of the car, since there is, for practice purposes maybe 75KG of noseweight already in there so to speak.
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