Means of transport such as a garbage truck or such like, provided with a loading and tilting device for the handling of containers or such like

A tilting, lifting and weighing apparatus movably mounted to a truck body, said apparatus comprising:

• a container having sidewalls and a pair of attachment surfaces, each of said attachment surfaces being disposed on a respective opposed sidewall;
• a weighing and tilting mechanism including
• an auxiliary frame,
• a main frame,
• a pair of coupling members each including means for measuring load applied to said coupling members, each of said coupling members connecting said main frame to said auxiliary frame,
• a pair of engaging members each being engageable with a respective one of said attachment surfaces so that said container is supported by said engaging members, said engaging members being supported by said auxiliary frame,
• means for tilting said container;
• and
• means structurally connecting said truck body to said weighing and tilting mechanism, for lifting said weighing and tilting mechanism;
• wherein said load applied to said coupling members includes a total of a weight of said auxiliary frame and a weight of said container, and said coupling members connect said main frame to said auxiliary frame at points which lie outside of a vertical plane defined between said engaging members.