0 the weight of a vehicle or container when empty --
1 the weight of a vehicle or container when empty, taken away from the combined weight of the vehicle, etc. plus the goods it is carrying to find the net weight of the goods: --
2 the weight of the material in which goods are wrapped, taken away from the total weight of the goods including this material to find the net weight of the goods: --
One hesitates about using metaphors, but we seem to be sowing either a field of tares or a field of dragons' teeth.
Our tares are full of anomalies and should be reviewed.
Let the wheat and the tares grow together, and we can have another think about this in 10 years' time.
There will, however, be cases in which it is found that the tare weight mark understates the actual weight of the vehicle.
It is interesting that in the case of all railway wagons, the gross and the tare weight has to be shown on them.
The tare weight is 7 tons 18 cwt.
In another case, the tare of a vehicle used for delivering logs had been persistently understated by 6½ cwt.
In one case, for example, the tare weight of a lorry delivering hay had been understated by 6 cwt.
