Are you in need of a new weighbridge? Do you work daily with this type of weighing equipment? Take a look at this guide that Balanças Marques has prepared that sums up everything you need to know, so that you can choose and work more efficiently with a weighbridge.
The industrial weighing team of Balanças Marques has prepared a special content for you who seek or deal daily with a weighbridge to weigh the freight trucks that come in and out of your business.
On a short and complete guide, we give you some tips so that you find out, step by step, all you need to know about weighbridges.
Watch every step carefully (and follow the links we’ve put along the text) to make more conscious decisions at the moment of choosing your weighbridge and to use it at your business:
1. Essential concepts about weighing and weighbridges
First of all, to work more efficiently with weighing equipment’s such as a weighbridge, you need to bear some concepts in mind about the weighing process – which is not that simple as you may think at first sight.
When you use a weighbridge, you’ve probably never stopped to think about all the factors that come into play at the time of weighing. Equipped with load cells, sensitive to any change, the weighing instruments can be affected by multiple variables, as is the case of gravity.
And, in your quest for a weighbridge, you may have even think that, apparently, these equipment are all the same with their long platforms to weigh trucks. But, in fact, weighbridges have different functionalities and characteristics. For this reason, at the time to choose yours, there’s some concepts related to weighing that you should recall, such as the range/capacity and the division, so that the equipment is really adjusted to the needs of your business.
2. The process of choosing a weighbridge
For each type of business, for each type of truck and freight and for each type of space, there’s always an ideal weighbridge model. Because the truck scales can be built in metal or simultaneously in metal and concrete, can be installed on the ground or be embedded, can have many dimensions and different load cells – all for them to adapt to your business.
For this reason, so that you can choose the most suitable weighbridge for you, you should get to know all the alternatives available on the market, seeking to understand the characteristics that benefit your business the most and, after that, you should follow the several steps that we indicated for your selection process.
3. Use and maintenance of weighbridges
In the day-to-day life of a business, the weighbridges are subject to constant use and, most of the time, exposed to the elements, such as sun and rain, so it’s natural that may suffer some wear.
So that your truck weighing equipment can have a long service life, you should start by choosing the best fit for your business, deciding accordingly to your needs and space conditions, and, later, bet on their maintenance with cleanings and regular reviews.
Besides, in the legislation, weighbridges are considered “non automatic weighing instruments” used to “determine the mass for commercial transactions”. Which means that the truck scales of your business are framed on a European Union directive that requires, among other proceedings, a mandatory periodic check – which cannot be forgotten.
Now that you’ve read our guide about weighbridges and know everything you need to know about this equipment for weighing trucks, you’re ready to get to work and to choose and/or use it more efficiently.
Explore Balanças Marques website to find the ideal weighbridge for you and contact us to any clarification about weighing and our products.
