Right now my weight/hp ratio is undefined, but the engine is off - therefore hp = 0.... <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/evil.gif" alt="" />

I had mine weighed at the quarry (certified scales) at within 50lbs of that weight, with the back seat, but I was LIGHTER by 50, and had a full tank of fuel. I'm sure the dump scales are ok for charging for tonnage of refuse, because they just calculate gross minus tare weights, but I don't think they are real accurate. Quarry scales are certified because the load goes out the gate, where DOT lies in wait with the portable scales and the bada$$ ticket book.

When I was running a site work construction company for others, we had a big pan (earthmover thingy) at one job site that needed to be moved to another. The gross weight limit is 40 tons, and the tractor/lowboy combo we owned was limited to 35T, and with the big pan on board, we were overweight, so we hired a contract mover with a 50t lowboy. He was late, and the operator (classic rednek move coming up here) got tired of waiting, and decided just to drive it to the jobsite. On public roads. With only two axles (and weight limits per axle apply). With NO STINKIN' BRAKES (you stop it on the job site by putting down the cutting blade). I went looking when the mover didn't show up. As I headed north, I see cresting the hill about 1/2 miles ahead one big green Euclid twin motor pan, doing about 45mph, and as soon as he crests the hill, DOT cops start coming out of the woodwork. Must have been 50 cars full of them. He got a ticket for overweight and tearing up the road with the cutting edge to keep from pancaking the roadblock cop cars, and another for NO TAG. The first ticket would have cost about $8000 PLUS the road damage (about 200' of paving peeled down to dirt - maybe $10k or so more), and the second about $50. The operator kept jawboning the cops as they wrote the tickets, AFTER taking about 50 tries to get it stopped on the portable scales, and they got the VIN# wrong on the overweight/damage ticket, so the judge threw it out, and we ended up paying $50. The killer is, as soon as the cops were out of sight, he fired it up and drove it the rest of the way to the job, and only took out 3 or 4 road signs on the way. I kind of miss old Billy Dewayne and his brother Bobby Dewayne (and Dewayne is NOT their last name, it's the middle one)....