A bit Heavy..I think! (1 Viewer)

[Badknee]

When I was a weigh bridge operator it was only £3 per weight ticket.

Yes but you were weighing horses and carts.

 

[mike mcglynn]

Yes but you were weighing horses and carts.

Yes and over 75 tankers a day

 

[Figaro]

@John Giblin
Yes you were royaly shafted but for future reference McGuiness's Longport, bottom of Porthill bank have a weighbridge and charge £20 with a printout.
Edit. That's for all three, front rear and both axles

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[gus-lopez]

I think you will find its a lot cheaper than the fine for being overloaded.

Weighbridge will need regular calibration, that will not be cheap.

Up to 5% ,nothing & up to 10% = £100 . The op's nearly paid that already.lol

 

[scotjimland]

After all of two minutes weighing total, front and rear axle weight I was given the bill of £72. (£20 x 3 + VAT)

Is it me? Or does anyone else think this is over the top, cost-wise?

It was way over the top.. but they can charge what they like.. it's called capitalism.. the free market economy..

They are expensive to buy and install but last a lifetime with little maintenance.. other than lubrication and cleaning..

Also, It does not cost a ''small fortune' to calibrate a weigh bridge.. it was one of the jobs I did when employed at Shell Haven Oil refinery as an Instrument Technician..

Modern weigh bridges have an auto calibration for zero and span, which the operator checks daily.. they only require a physical calibration every six months with weights .. which takes about 2 hours.. most of that time spent drinking tea with the operator..

My advice.. shop around and ask the price before booking or driving onto the weighbridge..

 

[Langtoftlad]

Front,back and together with printout. £5-00 in Lincoln. Nearly pay for your diesel to come down to visit Mike. ps Will bring that missing part to Misterton

Which one is that one please.
I might be passing nearby Lincoln on my way home.

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[Anthea M]

Ours is free to weigh front, back and total.
£5 for a print-out which I can't help but think is pointless as it only says what you weighed-in at on the day, at a specific time, nothing to do with when you actually set out on the road - and this changes all the time with use of fuel/ addition of shopping etc, so can't be of any value as a defence to anything, can it?
Can anybody tell me why a printout is useful please?

 

[Anthea M]

Is it so you can remember it?!!

 

[Graham and Jane]

Our local one charges £5 with a printout

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[Bailey58]

We pay £10 for a print out for two weights, any combination of front, back or total. A print out, as said above, is useful as a reminder but whilst it is no defence if found inadvertently overweight it does suggest you have made the effort to check and are aware of the limitations.

 

[GWAYGWAY]

SHAFTED.
Totally your own fault ASK FIRST. You cannot object afterwards. I paid £5 per weight and that was cheap, Parkers in Canterbury with all the steel shards all over the place, Wanted £15 per weigh. The other one That I went to first, at the recycling depot, was so far our I panicked that I had bought a huge mistake. But the van was right on the money. within 20kgs. when I got it done again at the Grain depot.

 

[androidGB]

Out of interest can I ask when you drive on weigh the front, then weigh the rear axle does it add up to the total when weighed?

Might sound obvious, but I'd be interested if it works in practice

Andrew

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[Lenny HB]

Out of interest can I ask when you drive on weigh the front, then weigh the rear axle does it add up to the total when weighed?

Might sound obvious, but I'd be interested if it works in practice

Andrew

If it doesn't you have a problem, but in practice if there is a steep ramp onto the plate that can give inaccurate axle readings as some of the weight could be transferred to the axle on the ramp.
Totaling the two axles is the way dynamic weighbridges work.

 

[Lenny HB]

Ours in Lancing is open 24 hours a day and is free. We used it for the first time last week and found we had 100kg left to play with. We didn't have our electric bikes which are 44kg for the two of them or the new awning which is 25 kg. We did have a full tank of water and everything else we needed for a weekend away. We really have got to be careful in future.

We use that one regularly only a couple of miles from home. I do find results can vary depending on how centred you are and how fast you drive over the plate it can vary by 30-40kg I always take the average of 3 readings.
I do wonder how accurate the are at 3-4 tonne as they are calibrated at 17-18 tonne with a tolerance of +/- 110kg for a dynamic weighbridge. Now to contradict myself having played about taking heavy containers out of my garage they seem to record the 20kg weight difference OK and using strain gauge technology they should be fairly accurate. I wonder if the tolerances were set for older technology.

 

[CWH]

Is it so you can remember it?!!

Ah well, see, I have a pen & a notebook/logbook/journal for that ...

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[scotjimland]

https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...-of-practice-enforcement-weighing-of-vehicles

Extract..

Static and dynamic weighting tolerances..

Appendix 4: Accuracy testing for axle weighers
A4.1 Introduction
The equipment is to be tested by the direct application of weights distributed evenly across the weighbeam. When the equipment is new or following a repair, adjustment, alteration or replacement which, in the opinion of an Inspector of Weights and Measures or a person authorised by a notified body operating under Directive 2009/23/EC could have affected its accuracy, the weigher must indicate the weight applied to within the tolerance +/-10kg. When otherwise tested the weigher must indicate the weight applied to within a tolerance of +/- 20kg.

When the equipment is tested by the passage of vehicles whose weights have previously been determined on a conventional weighbridge, the total weight of the vehicle as determined by the aggregation of the weights recorded for its individual axles must not differ from that indicated on the conventional weighbridge by more than +/- 100kg multiplied by the number of axles.

 

[wingman]

If you're paying the sort of money that the OP paid, these are worth a look?
(From main page, go to 'products' then scroll down to scales picture on the right).

www.vancomfort.co.uk

 

[pappajohn]

Could have sworn you said you USED the weighbridge......im obviously mistaken and you said you BOUGHT the weighbridge.

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[Peter Ashcroft]

I had mine done recently and it was £5 a weight, so £15 in total

 

[Hotelman]

You try telling swmbo she can't take her gin, tonic, clothes for every eventuality, hair dryer, rollers, wine, more clothes, shoes and more shoes ...and she wants a full tank of water, and let's not mention toiletries!!!!

 

[Bailey58]

If you're paying the sort of money that the OP paid, these are worth a look?
(From main page, go to 'products' then scroll down to scales picture on the right).

www.vancomfort.co.uk

These have been discussed on Fun before, not sure what the consensus or the accuracy was.

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[John.]

£15 in Warrington.
Thankfully I've got a spare 233kg after I'm fully loaded (pvc)

 

[Steve N Tracy]

These have been discussed on Fun before, not sure what the consensus or the accuracy was.

If you want them cheaper https://www.obelink.co.uk/caravan-weight-control.html?gclid=CJmRpq7Bqc0CFUJmGwodhS0LQw or the heavy duty ones https://www.obelink.co.uk/caravan-weight-control-extra.html?gclid=CJL62IvCqc0CFRFmGwodXOMGUg I have bought awnings off this company in the past first class service.

 

[Wilderbeast]

"Cobra" over the boarder in Middlesbrough £3 .......
Used them lots of times easy.
D

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[Bazzermc]

"Thamesdown Recycling on the A419 near Cricklade" - is £10 this year for whole vehicle single axle and printout.

 

[hilldweller]

Following a "heated discussion" I paid half, £36... still robbery IMHO. - We live & learn. lol.

And you were still robbed. Get back to whoever told you to got there and make a big fuss.

 

[hilldweller]

These have been discussed on Fun before, not sure what the consensus or the accuracy was.

Poor. That was from Dave Newel.

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[Poohbear]

I don't understand why anyone would get into that situation. One of the first things I ask when I ring up one of the public weighbridges on the list is how much it will cost to weigh my motorhome. I wouldn't travel there not knowing how much it was going to cost me. Don't know why anyone would?

 

[Ranger]

The op can't have come from Yorkshire as every conversation there starts and ends with "how much"

 

[Techno]

Trading standards at Morley, 24/7 drive through FREE

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