Overloading not only affects most of the major components on a vehicle, it also has an unwanted affect on the road surface.
Was the tragic collapse of the Ponte Morandi in Genoa caused
by years of overloaded traffic? It is surely one of the factors that the
authorities will be looking in to.
Building and maintaining the country’s roads costs literally
millions. And roads are designed with a life expectancy based upon calculations
of how much traffic there will be and estimations of how heavy those vehicle
will be. If the road surface needs to be replaced sooner than predicted, part
of that will be down to increased traffic.
But part will also be down to heavier than anticipated
loads.
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| Axtec OnBoard Protects Against Overloads Away From Base |
One of the major issues is overloaded axles. In simple
terms, a 100t evenly loaded vehicle with 100 axles each bearing 1t will cause
less damage to the road surface than a 10t evenly loaded vehicle with 2 axles
each bearing 5t.
And the money for repairing those worn out roads comes from
taxation both business and personal and I’m sure everyone agrees the less tax
we have to pay the better.
There is a broad range of systems available for preventing
overloading and getting good advice is vital to ensure the right one is
specified. Vehicles on multi-drop work would probably benefit from an onboard indicator. Artics taking full loads from a DC are best weighed on a dynamicaxle weighbridge. Two axle rigids maybe a static axle weighbridge or possibly portable weighpads.
Whatever your needs Axtec have a system to suit and offer
free, impartial advice on the correct system for any application.
And the good news is that checking vehicle weights means you
can ensure your vehicles are running at peak efficiency on every trip which
will save your business money.
But the best news of all is that it may even help keep those
tax bills down.
