Thread: Codes on Data plate for Australian Built 1970s Truck

If you assume CCW as Carrying Capacity Weight, wouldn't that be equivalent to NET weight, not Gross weight?

Chris

Is it a C or a G? GCW - Gross Combination Weight? Although I thought the term was Gross Combination Mass.

If I blow the pic up, and then look at the rest of the plate I think it it GCW. Ron, GCW is what it used to be called, but as weight changes due to certain factors mass is considered more accurate. ( Although, if those factors arise when you are towing then I think nomenclature would be the least of your worries. )

GVM is the Kerb weight of the vehicle plus the payload. GCM is the GVM plus the maximum towed weight. If I am correct about the plate then Lionel's legal tow would be 4400 lbs or 2000 kg. It doesn't seem to mention whether that is braked.

Originally Posted by Lionelgee

Hello All,

Can anyone enlighten me of what the data plate code of CCW could be? As per the attached photograph, my eyesight tells me that there is an abbreviation of GVM before the number of 8400 lbs. My understanding is that GVM is the Gross Vehicle Mass. I am not sure why the lesser weight which I would interpret as either the Kerb Weight or the TARE Weight would have the letters of what looks like GVM next to it.


To the right of the data plate it looks like a CCW of 12600 lbs.

Would CCW be something like the Carrying Capacity Weight that could be the same as the Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW) or Gross Vehicle Mass (GVM)?

It would have been good if the data plate showed things like the Kerb Weight, or the TARE

My guess is the the 8400 lbs is the same as the TARE and the 12600 lbs and the Gross Vehicle Mass is 12600 lbs.

Kind regards
Lionel

What is the truck Lionel?

8400 lb is 3.8 tonne.
So if that is tare it's a quite a big truck
12600lb is 5.7 tonne.
I'm guessing it's GVM and GCM

My 130 is 1985KG tare (no I don't believe it either)
3500kg GVM
7000KG GCM

Tony

Originally Posted by Tins

If I blow the pic up, and then look at the rest of the plate I think it it GCW. Ron, GCW is what it used to be called, but as weight changes due to certain factors mass is considered more accurate. ( Although, if those factors arise when you are towing then I think nomenclature would be the least of your worries. )

GVM is the Kerb weight of the vehicle plus the payload. GCM is the GVM plus the maximum towed weight. If I am correct about the plate then Lionel's legal tow would be 4400 lbs or 2000 kg. It doesn't seem to mention whether that is braked.

Hi Tins.
Sorry to nit pick.

In light vehicles the GCM is rarely the GVM + Max tow weight.

One certain dual cab it's not much more than the tare + max tow weight.

My 130 is 3500kg GVM, 4000kg towing, but 7000kg GCM.

Given it's a 300Tdi the GCM is probably a bit academic.

Tony

Hello All,

The vehicle in question is from a special contract made for Telecom in the 1970s. It is a D-Line 1210 van body sitting on a 1310 chassis so the vehicle is four wheel drive. The C-Lines the earlier model did have the option of a 1310 four wheel drive van. The D-Line van was only available as the 1210 in two-wheel drive.

My eyesight is not what it used to be and the angle of the plate is not in the easiest position to photograph either. Hence the not so great quality photograph. My apologies.

My Dad started with the PMG and worked right through as a Telstra. When he worked as a Linesman he was issued one of these 'Linesman's' vans. My van was made in Victoria and spent its whole work life in Western Australia. It somehow found its way to New South Wales in later life and I got it transported to Queensland. All the interior of the van still wears the Telecom Gold paint.

In service the vehicles were fitted with pneumatic trailer brake controllers.

Kind regards
Lionel

That van looks familiar, Lionel.
As John has said, GVW and GCW (W being weight) are the redundant terms, replaced by GVM and GCM, IIRC in the nineties or noughties.
The manufacturer cannot/does not quote tare weights as they are almost infinitely variable due to various options and accessories fitted and different body types and builders.