Axle Load HUD V1.0.2.0

Axle Load HUD lets you see the live load on your front and rear axle before steering and balance turn into a problem.

You get a small top-down tractor on the HUD, showing the current load on both axles. When one axle is carrying too much, its colour makes that clear.

Features

• Green: all good, your tractor is happy.
• Yellow: you are getting close to the limit.
• Red: one axle has too much load, the other is below 20% of the tractor’s weight, or the vehicle is above its permissible mass.
• See the live front and rear axle load in tonnes and percent, calculated from the real wheel contact force. Implements, front loaders, front weights, wheel weights and dual wheels count too. A wheel in the air carries nothing, and the HUD knows that.
• You also get ballast advice showing how many kilograms to add to the front axle to reach 20% again. The front hitch lever is included, so you do not haul more iron than needed.
• If the balance goes wrong, a game notification tells you the cause and gives the advice.
• The HUD follows your game’s HUD scale but keeps a fixed size.
• The 20% rule is for ordinary wheeled tractors. Crawlers, articulated tractors and combines still get the HUD as plain information.
• Drive while the load is out of balance and the tractor wears faster, tops out at a lower speed and brakes worse. The effects fade in and out smoothly, then disappear when you fix the balance.
• Do not want the driving penalties? The console command alhPenalties switches them off.

Controls

Press Right Ctrl + . to show or hide the HUD. You can change the key in the controls menu.

Notes

• The extra wear and driving penalties run on the server side, so they work in single player and for the host in multiplayer.
• The 20% front axle rule is a real-world rule of thumb, not a law of physics. If your tractor steers fine at 18%, that is the tractor’s problem, not yours.
• Made with love, a lot of tonnes and a small amount of swearing at a 3300 kg overweight or at the lack of iron in the warehouse.

Changelog

• V1.0.2.0
  Press Right Ctrl + , to move it with the mouse and change its size with the mouse wheel, then press again to save. The console command alhReset puts it back. You can change the keys in the controls menu.