LS-WIM System Reduced Traffic Backups at South American Market

Capturing weight data can be an effective means of tracking inventory and product movement but measuring vehicle weights while controlling traffic in a high-volume setting is a difficult task. It is important to find a balance between a thorough check and restricting traffic. In a market setting with heavy traffic, Weigh-In-Motion has proven to be an efficient way to track inventory and ensure delivery of an expected amount of product, while minimizing constraints to the flow of traffic.

Managers of a South American market needed a solution to weigh incoming trucks without slowing the flow of traffic through the gate. Traditional means of measuring truck weights, like full-size truck scales and portable scales, had several disadvantages including the amount of space needed, and the number of properly trained employees required to operate the scales and record weights.

The biggest inconvenience shared by both methods was that the vehicle being weighed had to come to a complete stop, leading to backups, inefficiencies and errors.

When the market’s managers contacted local scale dealer Exim Tecnologías de Precisión to find a solution, they were introduced to Intercomp’s LS-WIM® Axle Scale System . The low-speed Weigh-In-Motion system weighs each axle as vehicles drive over a weighbridge that is 13 feet by 29.5 inches (4 m x 749 mm). Trucks can run over the scale at 5–10 mph while recording accurate axle weights.

The axle weights are then totalized, providing a vehicle’s GVW while incoming traffic keeps moving. The small footprint of these scales allows them to be installed in a matter of days, keeping downtime to a minimum. They are also far less expensive to purchase and install than traditional truck scales.