I have one in the truck that reads my drives and I go off of that , that scale is very accurate and I have made adjustments to barely legal loads and than hit cat scales and end up right on the money.
Scale on a dry van
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I think that it’ll take only around 1.5 years for even the higher cost digital scale to pay for itself. On a 5 year cycle that is huge and not even taking into factor time savings! Time = Revenue so the actual ROI may be well under a year. It seems like as much a no brainer as the tire inflation system is.
This is my thinking but I wanted to see what y’all were doing and why I mostly only see it on reefers.Vampire Thanks this. -
Details on 5000 increments please sorry still learning ?
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Here is a link for the Right Weight products. I might also add that the mechanical type with the needle is considerably less expensive. I had the dealer install my digital system when I bought the truck and trailer new, and they charged me a couple thousand for it installed. I'm sure I could have bought it and installed it for much less, but I was stupid and loaded back then.
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These are the liquid gauges that I will install into the tractor. T into the 1/4 lines from the trailer air bags right up to the coupling with a quick connect and run it back into the tractor same with the drives and I have both gauges that I can see right from my seat.
Total cost is under $75.
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I'm digging the idea of the Appweigh solution for my one dry van operation. Looks simple and I could return it if it didn't work well.
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We use analog gauges on the truck and both trailers on our super b train hopper bottoms. One of our guys tried the digital ones, but they all died within two years.
Grossing 140,000 lbs I can get within 1,000 lbs of max weight when loading at a farm as long as the yard is flat and level. I’ll get any particular axle group within 250 lbs. That’s truck tandem, trailer tri-axle and trailer tandem.Dave_in_AZ and Midwest Trucker Thank this. -
I use AppWeigh, works great, use a tubing cutter, it will take at least 30 seconds to install.
Or get a liquid filled gauge that goes to 100lbs with lots of markings so you can read to the exact pounds, do some calibrating on a few loads and your good to go. Learn the pressure for 34k and your good. you need scale on both ends because sometimes a customer may screw up and load will be heavier than advertised.Dadetrucking305, 12 ga and Dave_in_AZ Thank this.
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