What is gross weight?

Question

is it the combined weight or just the load weight?

Answer 1

Combined or total weight.  It's the number you'd get if you drove over a weigh bridge.

Answer 2

The full weight of a shipment, including goods and packaging.

Answer 3

Its the total weight of everything.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

One Material i.e, a TV weight 5 Kgs.

Carton Box Weight :  2 Kgs.

After Packing the TV into the Carton Box : Total Weight 7 Kgs

7 Kgs = Net Weight

TV Weight = Gross Weight

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Gross weight is the weight of everything.  Truck and the load it's carrying.

Answer 8

To directly answer your question:

Gross weight is the 'combined weight' of everything under question.

Net weight, on the other hand, is the weight of the desired product, or what you're after, only.

Hope this fits the situation you're thinking of.