Install Truck Weigh Scales To Avoid Penalties
Posted by Ciara Lopez on September 22nd, 2016
If you are in the transportation business and operate trucks on a large scale, you must have faced the issue of overloading of the trucks. Also, there are chances that you have to bear government penalties due to this. You can avoid these situations by using truck scales, which can determine the weight of your trucks in fully loaded condition and also when they are empty. With the help of truck scales, you will exactly know the load that your trucks can travel with on the roads to avoid fines as authorities have set a limit for the weight that can be carried on various roads.
Truck weigh scales are available in different types and are mounted on solid foundations, built of concrete and steel to handle heavy weights, which may range up to 80,000 pounds or 36,000 kilograms per truck. Electronic science is involved in calculating the weight of the trucks as these scales make use of sensors that receive signals from a junction box with the help of strain gauges, which are wires embedded in the concrete and have an electrical current running through them. When the truck is placed on these scales, pressure is built and detected by the sensors resulting in the compression of the wires. It leads to the display of exact load of the truck on a monitor put in a booth. You can calculate the axle weight as well as the gross weight of the trucks with these scales. Axle weight gives you an idea about the load carried by each axle of the truck while gross weight is the total weight of the truck at a particular time.
In order to calculate the taxes and penalties on the truck operators, government authorities have put in these scales at various junctions to weigh the trucks. However, different companies where transportation of goods forms the major part of their operations have installed these scales to determine the load they are sending on their trucks. It helps them in avoiding the fines as they would transport the load according to the permissible limit only.
Without getting in two minds, you should install these digital weigh scales in your premises to measure the load of your trucks. Many of the suppliers are providing these scales over the internet and you need to browse various websites to find them. After finding a suitable company, you can contact it and get a truck scale deemed fit for your operations.
Author’s Bio: The writer is a blogger. This article is about digital truck weigh scales.
