Being in the trucking industry means having to travel to areas that you are not familiar with. You have to locate places to park, find fuel, scale loads and more. Having to search for "truck scales near me" is a common query in a drivers search history. Making sure your load is legal so you don't pull through a weigh station overloaded is common task after leaving a shipper with a full truck.
The problem with this situation is that "truck scales near me" can mean finding a truck scale over 50+ miles away. When you need know what your loads weighs you don't really want to waste hours of drive time find out what that is. You want to know right away if you need to adjust your 5th wheel, slide your tandems or get something removed.
With the advancement of technology getting your gross and axle weights is easier and more cost effective than ever. At Blue Ink Tech we made BIT Air Scales to help drivers remove this task from their entire day. We have changed "truck scales near me" to "truck scales under me".
Installing BIT Air Scale on your truck and trailer
Putting the BIT Air Scale on your truck and trailer is one of the easiest installations you will ever have to make on your rig. The only piece of equipment you need is a hose cutter or razor blade to cut your air suspension line.
With a simple cut of the air line you can push the hose into the Blue Ink Tech DOT approved tee fitting and that's it. You now have truck scales on your truck and trailer.
When you are looking for truck scales near me you don't even have to look 40 feet away.
Calibrating your BIT truck scales for accuracy
Getting your sensors calibrated to your specific truck and trailer setups is just as easy as installing the scales. The calibration process is so easy that all you have to do is scale your truck and trailer empty and loaded a few times to train the sensors on what different loads feel like.
By scaling the truck empty and associating what the weight is with the sensor's pressure, you are letting the app know what an empty set up looks like for you.
After you scale some loads and associate those weights with the sensor's pressure you have trained the sensors to know how the truck and trailer change under different weights. This is how BIT Air Scales can provide you accurate weights for all of your loads moving forward.
Print and send your own scale tickets
With properly calibrated air scale sensors you can print and send your own scale tickets from anywhere in the country. Keeping your own scale tickets allow you to manage your records and provide proof that you are properly loaded.
Carriers can keep drivers scaling events digitally in their account and get historic weight readings of loads previously picked up. By giving the driver less responsibility to collect and maintain paperwork they can focus more on driving.
Eliminating everything you can out of drivers day-to-day so that the only task they have to do is drive helps boost driver retention and reduce the drivers stress load. This is one way to keep drivers from looking for different opportunities with other carriers.
Save money on scaling loads that are legal
The cost of scaling increases every year. Many drivers scale loads 9+ times per month. This can easily cost carriers and drivers over $1,300/year per truck just on scale tickets. When you add in the time to search for "truck scales near me" and the drive time required to scale, the cost just add up.
Most of the truck loads are legal and scaled for peace of mind so they don't have to worry about weigh stations. If you are able to know with a high certainty that you are not over loaded then the cost of peace of mind goes way down.
By getting gross and axle weights directly from you truck you can drastically cut down then amount of money you pay to scale loads. These savings can be used to pay yourself more, add to your fleet, better maintain your vehicles or hire more help.
