Weighing Service

Capital Vehicle Weighing provides a personal vehicle weighing service and report to help you understand your vehicle weight and compliance rating maximums. 

Our services include obtain specific compliance ratings for each vehicle and caravan and analyse this with the actual weights measured during our appointment. We provide customers with a detailed ratings Vs actual weight report to identify if their vehicle is balanced and meets manufacturers weight requirements. 

We visually explain and discuss information to customers to ensure they understand their weight situation uniquely for their vehicle. This removes confusion, clarifies mis-conceptions and provides reassurance. We discuss a weight management plan for customers travelling situation and provide an safety assessment of their towing set up including towhitches, safety chains etc.

Commonly vehicles require some form of suspension upgrade for assistance when towing and carrying heavy loads. Our assessment and report assists customers access the correct upgrades for their towing requirements.

We recommend customers have their vehicle weighed when it is  loaded and packed for their typical use. 

Towing a caravan adds significant weight to your vehicle, requires careful planning and loading, and puts additional responsibilities on a driver to manage safety.

Between 2016 and 2020, there were 215 casualty crashes involving a vehicle towing a caravan on NSW roads. These crashes resulted in 17 fatalities and 116 serious injuries.

Making sure you know how to load and weigh your caravan, and safely drive while towing one, can reduce your risk of being involved in a crash. It can also affect your caravan insurance cover and by complying with safe loading laws, you won’t run the risk of fines from police enforced Roadside Caravan Safety Inspections.