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Wireless truck scales

Wireless truck scales
TruckWeight Inc recently an-nounced the introduction of Smart Sensor, which extends the wireless range of its Smart Scale onboard weigh scales to as much as 500 feet.

Designed for trucks, tractors, and trailers with air suspensions, the Smart Scale is ideal for owners and operators who demand fast, precise, and accurate axle weight readings. The updated Smart Sensor and wireless reader allow users to take a measurement where it’s convenient and safe, whether that’s in the truck cab or on the loading machine.

Smart Sensor measures temperature and pressure changes in a vehicle’s air suspension and wirelessly relays this data to a handheld receiver using a low-powered radio transmitter. A small computer in the handheld receiver interprets the information and provides an axle weight and gross vehicle weight measurement accurate to within 150 pounds. It produces readings once per minute, and every three seconds when the sensors detect the truck being loaded. The result is an axle weight and gross vehicle weight measurement within 0.3 percent of the actual gross vehicle weight.