Axle weighing is a unique branch of the weighing industry. Many of the accepted rules around obtaining accurate weights don’t apply.
An employee who recently joined us from another weighing
discipline said he’d had to ‘throw away’ just about everything he’d learnt
about weighing in the past. And learn all about the technicalities and
peculiarities of axle weighing.
And it’s a form of weighing that so many people think is easy to do. But in trying to do it, they make some horrendous mistakes.
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For instance, we go to great lengths to ensure the approach
concrete is laid to the correct tolerance.
So when a customer asked us to check out an axle weighbridge
installed by someone on the brow of a hill, it didn’t take long to prove why it
was inaccurate.
Another cheap system we recently encountered needed to have
the weight indicator sent overseas every time it developed a fault! Weeks of
downtime was the result.
Both of these installations have now been replaced with a
highly accurate Axtec system with correct concrete approaches which, if they
should ever fail, can be fixed on site by an engineer fully trained and
equipped to deal with axle weighing.
Getting it wrong can not only be costly to correct but could
also mean falling foul of the law.
Another recent customer had attempted a cheap repair on his
system using a foreign made indicator and was horrified to learn that the
system was now no longer legal for Trade weighing.
For months he had been using the system for invoicing at
risk of falling foul of Weights & Measures legislation.
At worst, it could have closed his business down.
All Axtec’s senior employees have been engaged exclusively
in axle weighing for many years, over 40 years some of them.
We have learnt, and are still learning, about how to weigh
axles accurately. And we certainly have far more knowledge than anyone else
about this unique field.
So if you want to make sure you get the system installed
correctly, maintained correctly and be fully compliant with the necessary
legislation, we would be pleased to offer the benefit of our experience.
