Where the Weight Sits, Not Just How Much of It There Is AXLE
A lorry can be two tonnes under its plated gross weight and get a prohibition, because the load went in at the back and the rear axle is over on its own.
The vehicle
Distances are from the front axle, positive towards the back. A rear bogie counts as one group at its centre, which is how plating works and the only arrangement that can be solved without guessing at the suspension.
What is on it
What it isKilogramsMetres from front
Where the weight sits
Where the next one may go
Item by item
The working
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