Weighbridge adventures

[Wrighpm]

Hi decided to take our new (to us) motorhome to a weighbridge.
So with full tank of water, half tank of fuel, two full gas bottles and 2 passengers I weighed in at 3560Kg. I.e. a bit over.
It managed to de-clutter and dropped 46Kg but still over by 14Kg.
Noting that there we no clothes in the van, the fridge was empty and two e-bikes were still to be loaded. Dropping 80 litres of water and travelling with 30 litres almost achieves 3500Kg and allows us to dress and take food.
However I decided to visit a different weighbridge.
This time it clocked 3380 with same loading as 1st weighbridge!
This only gives me 120Kg to cover food, clothes, e-bikes etc..... but a lot more do-able than I was first thinking.
VOSA fine is £100 for 5% over. 5% is 175Kg.
So if 2nd weighbridge is more accurate I have ample capacity.
I post this to share my weighbridge experience and welcome comments.

 

[Burge]

Very interesting as I'm thinking of doing a weighbridge visit shortly

 

[Geek]

It is interesting to get weights from both weighbridges with no changes, to get a good comparison of the readings.
If one says 3500 and the other says 3380, that's a 3.5% difference.
I'm guessing that is why there is a 5% leeway in the application of the law, but if you went to one of these you'd have no way to know which end of the range its readngs were at.
Even with just 3.5% variability, if you checked at a weighbridge that measured 3.5% low and VOSA used one that measured 3.5% high the difference would be 240kg.
Hopefully, VOSA use accurate, calibrated weighbridges but it's a reminder that we can't add 5% to the GVW when loading, in case our reading was a low one.