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CASE STUDY
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Moving up the price list to about £4,500 Avery Weigh-Tronix can mount weight sensors on the forklift truck. With this option you'll enjoy a high degree of accuracy, says product manager Chris McAllister within 1kg to 2kg so much so that operators transporting palletised loads in the US use the data they generate to bill customers.
"They're charged for the actual amount of weight the carrier has been asked to transport," he says. Weighing remains accurate even if the fork positions change, the wheels are on uneven surfaces or the mast is tilted, he says, and both 2,500kg and 5,000kg capacity units are available.
Each pallet's weight can be relayed to the operator's computer, along with the date, time and drivers name.
'It works rapidly and that's a fundamental consideration if you're in a hub that's working flat-out," McAllister says. If the cargo's destination has suitable equipment then each pallet can be weighed again when it is off-loaded. "Weighing pallets at the start of a trip helps ensure you don't end up with the heavy pallets on the upper deck of a double-deck trailer and the light ones on the lower one, thus making it unstable," says McAllister.
Anything that contributes to reducing the risk of a truck turning over has to be worth considering.