<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br><br><div dir="ltr">sent from a phone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 1. Aug 2020, at 16:21, Jan Michel <jan@mueschelsoft.de> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><a href="#" class="_AppleShowQuotedContentButton"><div style="height: 55px !important; overflow: hidden !important;"><div preoffsettop="10" preoffsetheight="432"><blockquote type="cite" preoffsettop="388"><span>which implies empty mass plus maximum mass of payload.</span><br></blockquote></div></div></a><div preoffsettop="10" preoffsetheight="432" style="display: none;"><blockquote type="cite" __apple_fixed_attribute="true" preoffsettop="10"><span>On 01.08.20 15:36, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" __apple_fixed_attribute="true" preoffsettop="64"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>On 1. Aug 2020, at 15:27, Jan Michel <jan@mueschelsoft.de> wrote:</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" preoffsettop="145"><blockquote type="cite"><span>General terminology point of view:</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" preoffsettop="172"><blockquote type="cite"><span>As I understand it, the term 'rating' already refers to the allowed limit. Note that it's called 'gross weight rating', but not 'maximum gross weight rating'.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" preoffsettop="307"><span>I guess the “gross” part refers to a maximum.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" preoffsettop="361"><span>As in “zulässige Gesamtmasse”</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" preoffsettop="388"><span>which implies empty mass plus maximum mass of payload.</span><br></blockquote></div><span></span><br><span>No, "gross" refers to the German "Gesamt" as in "total weight of vehicle, driver and load". The precise translation of "gross weight" is "Bruttogewicht" or "Gesamtgewicht".</span></div></blockquote><br><div><br></div><div>that’s what I said, maximum payload included</div></body></html>