axle loading

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English

Noun

axle loading (plural axle loadings)

  1. (transport, rail transport) the weight placed on each axle of a vehicle.
    • 1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 60:
      Engine designers could and did specify axle loadings in excess of 80,000 pounds.