On-Board Scales: Benefit?

Don't you have the Cascadia anymore?

 

Got rid of that POS end of June 2010. Been in a S***Spreader since then.

 

Funny you mention Chep pallets.

I have a manufacturing plant and bring in a lot of products. Well some of the loads come in on chep pallets. One day I get a call from chep, and they tell me they are aware a company is shipping their pallets into my warehouse, and to call them when I accumulate a full truck load so they can come pick them up.

I then said "sure no problem, just give me your address, so I know where to send the bill". The person was confused and asked why? I said, if you want to rent my warehouse, and fill it with your pallets, I need to know where to send the bill to. There will be a storage fee.

Funny they said they'd get back to me, never heard from them again.

 

Also a shipper/salesperson will sometimes throw in an extra pallet of sample stuff. I've also seen where the reciever changed their order by adding or changing it at the last minute and throwing the weight off.

 

I wouldn't spend $500 for unproven technology. The air bag pressure gauge (tractor) that I've had allowed me to guess within 500 lbs and it was not a fine graduated gauge ... (and having such a gauge on trailers in a large carrier with lots of drop trailer accounts is not beneficial because each one "reads a little different" from one unit to the next as they do on tractors)

You have to consider, also, gauging the tractor is one thing, but what about all of the thousands of company trailers that will most likely not be outfitted? Having a dependable tractor gauge is nice in most cases, but the standard guage seems to work well enough in the situations where you can "rely on it". A lot would have to do with the simplicity (not prone to issues), but more importantly, the reliability of such a gauge.

 

Every single one of Primes Refer trailers have RightWeigh scales on them. Usually it is the responsibility of the drivers to weigh and calibrate them. Sign and date the calibration record on the inside of the scale door. I kept my tractor scale usually within 20-60lbs. and I used the trailer scale only as a refrence. Usually taking into account if it had been calibrated and when. I also knew my truck and once I could get rolling with the load I could feel the weight and where it was in terms of how the truck rode and handled. I didn't CAT anything under 41-42K usually. Once I started pushing 43-45K I'd scale it. Just my $.02

 

RightWeigh has been in business for a long time as well. My experience is, their scales are accurate to within 100 pounds. Mine was dead on every time. And a fraction of your price.

Better find something really special about your scale to make it marketable for that price.

I'm going to report your post as soliciting now.

Cheers!

 

And these scales are called_________?

What makes then so much better? What are we missing?