Scale on a dry van

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.

 

Interesting, thanks. If I was the only one using the trailers this might be the way to go, but not all my drivers have smart phones believe it or not. I’ll have to look and see if my omnitrac ELD offers anything like Scotty was talking about.

I have the pressure gauge on the truck, so that along with the trailer gauge I should be golden right? My goal is to cut down by a good 90% on my scale costs.

Ok thanks. So what do you mean that you can read it from inside the cab? I need to get the name brand from my trailer dealer of what digital they are talking about but I assumed I’d have to walk back and look at it like you would a needle type?

 

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.

 

Details on 5000 increments please sorry still learning ?

 

I have a system made by Right Weigh, and they make both the digital and mechanical types with the needle. My digital scale has sensors on the airbags that tell me the weight on a digital display in my truck. The mechanical systems have a pressure gauge mounted in a weather proof box on the side of the trailer that you need to open and look at the gauge. The gauge for the drive axles is generally mounted somewhere near the catwalk in front of your skid plate or the outside wall of the sleeper.

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.

About our products - Right Weigh

 

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.

 

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.

 

I have both of these systems on my trucks you forgot to mention that the both systems read in pounds weight not PSI my first mechanical gauge still works great after 18 years

 

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.

 

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.