How is the actual or effective mass of a vehicle at a given moment, together with its entire load and the passengers on board, defined?

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Laden mass is the effective mass or actual weight of the vehicle and everything it carries at a specific moment, adding up the vehicle itself, the load, the luggage and all the passengers and personnel on board. It must be distinguished from the tare (the weight of the empty vehicle with its supply of fuel, fluids and regulatory accessories, with no people or load) and from the maximum authorized mass (MAM), which represents the maximum limit of laden mass with which that vehicle is legally permitted to travel on public roads.

How is the actual or effective mass of a vehicle at a given moment, together with its entire load and the passengers on board, defined?

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