Lorry with test weightswhats it doing?

[W124Bob]

Several times a year I see smallish lorry driving around Manchester city centre with a load of weigths bolted directly to the chassis.Its usually on trade plates anyone any ideas what it's doing.This has been happening for several years now.

[GC8]

My guess would be the local authority checking public weighbridges.

[bob_g]

If the weights are bolted directly to the chassis, it could possibly be a prototype from one of the local commercial vehicle manufacturers - there are a variety of test routes to test the vehicles behaviour in different situations.

[powerstroke]

GC8 said:

My guess would be the local authority checking public weighbridges.

Doubtfull , the weighbridge testers use loose weights and a fork lift for putting exact cailbrated weights on them..

[FunBusMk2]

Does Google images throw up an image to give us an idea of the truck you've seen?

[GC8]

powerstroke said:

GC8 said:

My guess would be the local authority checking public weighbridges.

Doubtfull , the weighbridge testers use loose weights and a fork lift for putting exact cailbrated weights on them..

It was a wild arsed guess!

[W124Bob]

Its an sbsolutly bog standard 7.5 tonner various makes have been used in the last decade or so,usually running trade plates but spotted last week on a 56plate.