Weighbridge time
So we headed off on our first real long distance journey today (6th Dec 2016) since purchasing a caravan and filling it with our worldly possessions. I was curious if we would be needing to downsize even more items from the van in order to meet the legal weight requirements set out in the van specs and our ute's handbook.
We drove from Proserpine into Mackay and went for a chat with the Jayco dealer we bought the van from He suggested a place for us to go visit for weighing our van ( which i'm lead to believe a lot of people don't do and drive around Australia overweight)
We got to DGH Engineering in Mackay and for $25 we weighed in on their weighbridge and high five to us... despite guess-timating what we want to keep and what we want to throw out we actually "just" came in under weight.
The Caravan has a maximum weight of 3 tonne fully loaded
The Van weighed in at 2.940 tonne fully loaded
Ute has a maximum of 2.9 tonne fully loaded
Ute weighed in at 2.760 tonne
The Ute ball weight can not exceed 300 kg, that came in at 200 kg
So overall it was more good luck than good planning that we are legal from a weight prospective but the peace of mind knowing we are all good to travel legally and safely is a weight off our shoulders that doesn't unfortunately reduce the overall van weight even more though :)
So overall we are legal with our ute and caravan compliance plates and it also helps to feel comfortable when towing knowing your in the safe zone. Highly recommend doing this.
