On 20/11/2014 8:22 PM, Kees van Eeten -> David Drummond wrote:

 MvdV>>>> The registration card of my car mentions maximum allowed /mass/,
 MvdV>>>> not weight.

 BF>>>     Really? With that exact spelling? Maximum allowed for what?

 DD>> And what brand is his car?

 KvE>   Brand does not matter, we are talking about state issued registration
 KvE>   papers.

Yes of course - in my brain I saw "owner's manual".

 KvE>   As some of these values have to do with the power of the brakes,
 KvE>   mass is an issue. Weight is only an issue for crossing bridges and the
 KvE>   load on the road surface.

My 1 tonne (the amount I may put on the tray) ute does not stop at all well
when unladen (wheels lock up and it skids). If I put some weight on it it stops
better. Maybe the registration papers should state a minimum mass too?

As this light truck has only 4 wheels and its gross laden weight would very
likely be more than Michiel's car I don't think that road surface/bridge
capacity is really part the equation.

-- 

Regards
David

--- Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.