Influences on the Accuracy of Truck Weighing Scales

The accuracy of your weighing scales is a crucial factor to keeping your transportation and logistics business profitable. Weighbridges are tools that allow business owners to ensure that their trucks are the correct weight before sending them out onto the road. They ensure your business is compliant with all government regulations surrounding the weight of trucks, and safety of your drivers.

To make the most out of your weighbridges, they need to be accurate – if your weighing scale isn’t accurate, there is no point in having one.

Various environmental and human factors can impact your weighbridge’s accuracy; some of these are out of your control, while others aren’t.

Install Weighbridges In Area Where The Environment Is Stable
If you operate your business in an area where there are extreme environmental changes or where there are extremely hot or cold locations, you need to create an area where these influences won’t impact the weighbridge. While this might not be possible every time, if you are having a problem identifying the correct place for your weighbridge, your supplier can help you find a way to reduce the impact of environmental changes on your weighbridge.

Buy High-Quality Weighbridge
Choosing a high-quality weighbridge is also an important start. A low-quality weighbridge will not deal well with weather fluctuations, showing inaccurate results even in minor temperature changes. Weighbridges that use the latest technology, have a temperature compensation system, making sure the results are accurate even if the temperature fluctuates under a certain range.

Weighbridge Cleaning
Debris and moisture build-up around the weighbridge can also create problems – whether it’s dirt, ice, snow, or rain; these can cause wear and tear to any weighbridge. Any weighbridge operator should also be sure to clean their weighbridge regularly – weekly would be best.

Calibration Of Weighbridges
Calibration is an essential aspect of having an accurate weighbridge. It needs to be done every time the weather or the season changes. The location, weather, and placement of the weighbridge should be taken into consideration during calibration. When calibrating your weighbridge, it should be compliant with the necessary government rules and regulations.

If you are looking for the best weighbridges on the market, then you need to consult Trakblaze. Trakblaze are one of the leading static & dynamic weighbridge manufacturing companies in Australia and internationally, that have been serving the industry for over 90 years. They design weighbridges for road, rail, mining, and aviation industries.

Trakblaze sells the most comprehensive range of weighing solutions for trains, trucks, mining, and aircraft worldwide. Their products include truck scales, weighbridges, mobile train weighers, monitoring systems, volumetric scanners and balancing systems.

They strive to manufacture the most technologically advanced scales that will always deliver accurate results. If you are in need of high-quality weighing systems, contact Trakblaze and get a quote.