Help Needed on Commercial Dropside

[flipflop1]

Hi,

Anybody got any experience in loading a drop side tipper (before you start kenny its not my car thats gonna be getting filled with rubbish)

On a more serious note, Im looking to buy a transit 350 or suchlike to carry heavy materials, I always assumed that the van could carry in the payload enough weight to take the total vehicle weight to 3.5 tonnes. However I am hearing that there is maximum weight per axle and not gross vehicle weight.

Can anybody explain simply what we can carry in the back?

ps is a transit 30 a 3 tonne max as opposed to a 35 being a 3.5.

thanks in advance and apologies if these are dumbass questions

flip

[kmm]

You can't say i'm not good to you. Got some info here for you.

http://www.best4vans.co.uk/van-409.html

[Time Bandit]

The Transit 350 has a gross weight of 3500kg which is the legal maximum weight of the vehicle plus payload

From memory the twin wheel rear axle models have the following gross axle weights which individually must not be exceeded.

Front Axle 1600 kg
Rear Axle 2350 kg

[Who me ?]

Seem to remember asking Ford same question and the answer is on the plate (from memory on passenger side -doorish area) .The same info is in the handbook -though you'll have to trawl through the info to get that of your specific vehicle .On the last serires the bhp and GVW were on the front doors .On the latest ones it'son the rear doors -e.g 90T350 =90BHP ,with GVW =3.5 tonnes ( not tons).