axle weight
noun1
The total weight placed upon an axle and its attached wheels, which is transmitted to a road or rail surface.
- It may be objected that this system fails to take into account of possibly the most important of all practical considerations, maximum axle weight.1942 May-June, Ashley Brown, “Classifying Locomotives by Symbols”, in Railway Magazine, page 135:
- Related terms
- axle load, axleload, axle loading