This week we performed a truck scale installation in Seattle, Washington for Strategic Materials, a glass and plastics recycling company. Our client was depending on a neighboring truck scale for their weighing needs and incurring a charge each time they used their neighbor’s truck scale. Strategic Materials was also spending excessive time traveling back and forth from their site to the truck scale adjusting the loads to insure their trucks were not carrying over or underweight loads.
Our technican, Troy, installed a 70’ x 11’ Rice Lake Weighing Systems ATV portable truck scale along the Duwamish Waterway. The truck scale is equipped with 10’ flat approaches, portable ramps and side rails. Unique to this installation, is the use of solar energy to power the ATV truck scale. Because of the Northwest rainy weather, we also installed a battery back-up and a gas powered generator to insure the scale will function even during Seattle’s gloomy seasons.
In addition to the truck scale, we installed a three camera system and an unattended kiosk. The camera system allows the remotely located weighmaster to visually confirm the entire truck is on the scale. The cameras also provide the tractor and the trailer information. (This is required for Legal-for-Trade weighments.) The truck scale is equipped with a 6” Matko remote display allowing drivers to view their weights while on the scale.
Strategic Materials is a leader in the recycling industry processing recycled glass and plastic for use in a wide array of products, creating efficiencies for their customers while conserving earth’s natural resources. Most glass products begin with “cullet”, which is crushed, furnace-ready, recycled glass. Strategic Materials supplies their cullet to customers who produce glass containers, fiberglass, glass abrasives and decorative speciality glass. They also supply plastic resins to customers who use the resin to produce various plastic products.
Another truck scale installation successfully completed! Strategic Materials in Seattle is saving time, money and energy while helping conserve earth’s natural resources.