Comment by avar

9 years ago

Read the German Wikipedia article on the subject which shows German signs in short tons (non-metric unit): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militärische_Lastenklasse

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dom0  9 years ago

The class numbers only roughly correspond to weight, so you could just as well consider them metric tons (1000 kg).

  • avar  9 years ago

    You definitely can't consider them metric tons. If the bridge you're about to cross has a maximum advertised load of 120 sh tn and you consider it safe to drive your 120 m tn vehicle over the bridge on the basis of that you're going to be putting a 132.3 m tn load on the bridge, or roughly 10% more than it's rated for.