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Weighbridge

The platform scale used to weigh loaded vehicles, and the control point for both billing and compliance.

Also calledTruck scaleDharam kanta

A weighbridge is a heavy platform scale a vehicle drives onto, giving a total or axle-wise weight. In Indian transport it serves two distinct purposes that are easy to conflate: establishing the cargo weight for commercial settlement, and confirming that the vehicle is within its legal limits.

Weighbridges must be verified and stamped under legal metrology rules to be used for trade, and the certificate has an expiry. A slip from an unverified bridge is not reliable evidence in a weight dispute, which matters when a consignee challenges a quantity months later.

In practice the weighbridge is also the fleet's best fuel and pilferage control. Systematic differences between despatch and receipt weights on the same lane, or between the same driver's loads, are visible in the weighment data long before anyone notices a shortage in the stock ledger.

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Weights & measures

How load is measured, charged and legally limited.

Axle Load Limit

The maximum weight permitted on a single axle or axle group, independent of the vehicle's total weight.

CBM Calculation

Cubic metres of cargo — length × width × height in metres — used to price and plan volume-limited freight.

Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW)

The total permissible weight of a vehicle including its own weight, fuel, crew and payload.

Kerb Weight

What a vehicle weighs ready to drive but carrying no cargo — with fuel and fluids, without payload.

Overloading Fine

The penalty for carrying beyond permitted weight, charged as a base amount plus a rate per excess tonne.

Payload Capacity

The weight of cargo a vehicle can legally carry — gross vehicle weight minus its own kerb weight.

Tare Weight

The measured weight of an empty vehicle or container, subtracted from the loaded weight to get net cargo weight.

Volumetric Weight

A notional weight derived from a shipment's size, used to charge for the space light cargo occupies.

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