In the road transport industry, maximum payload every trip means the difference between a profit or a loss.
For operators and fleets, ensuring payloads are optimised is not only beneficial for increased efficiencies but help to achieve improvements in productivity across the board.
In this area, accurate on-board weighing systems or weighbridges are advantageous. Tramanco, a family-owned Brisbane-based business established in 1975, manufactures a range of Static and On-Board Mass (OBM) weighing systems and specialises in this field precisely.
Its flagship electronic weighing and data logging systems, particularly CHEK-WAY and KWIK-CHEK, are engineered to allow operators to weigh any type of vehicle regardless of their make, model or size.
“Tramanco’s systems are internally monitored for accuracy, damage and tampering every 30 seconds and any discrepancies are reported in real-time with GPS location and speed,” says Tramanco owner, Roger Sack.
“So, they allow the driver to confidently load to maximum payload every trip by relying on the displayed weights they are seeing.”
Both systems share common components and can be used with load cells, air and hydraulic pressure transducers, bending beam transducers and deflection or movement transducers of any type.
Tramanco prides itself for having quality Australian products which, from day one, were designed for Australian roads, loads and conditions.
It also writes its own software and, in addition, has several extra programs for a variety of operations such as load/deliver to monitor different products as they are being loaded and then unloaded.
Tramanco also provides 100 per cent spare parts back-up, as well as immediate service reports for mass quality records which are unique to CHEK-WAY.
“This means the operator can be assured that our scales are accurate, and a problem can be diagnosed in real time and then scheduled for repairs,” Roger says.
Without a reliable OBM system or weighbridge to count on, operators are often left guessing what their loads are. What do you do, then, if you are overloaded on one trailer or worse, underloaded on both?
“Remember, only six tonnes of the total load is your profit if you are fully loaded to 60 tonnes,” Roger says.
“What happens if you are down say, three tonnes? Do you just go and hope you don’t get pulled over and weighed, or do you tip another two or three tonnes off the overloaded trailer so that you are just running for the experience?”
The same applies to small trucks such as a 4.5-tonne 4×2 as well says Roger.
“It’s just the size of the loss which is involved in the transaction,” he says.
Size, as Roger notes, does matter. To ensure that your payload on any size vehicle remains legal, constant and profitable on every trip, the solution is to invest in quality weighing systems like the ones available from Tramanco.
“Accuracy, longevity, and quality are never accidents, they are the results of intelligent effort,” he says.
“Quality is that indefinable element which can never be inserted into a product once it has been made, or into a service once it has been given. Nor can it be removed. So always buy quality as it is the only thing that lasts.”
