On Board Weighing Systems (BSV) are systems designed to be installed on a variety of vehicles, allowing you to clearly control the weight of your transported goods. For cars, the concept can also find out the loads on the car’s axles.
Why are weighing systems necessary?
Many freight companies are often faced with requirements such as baggage measurement. The load on the machine needs to be set accurately in order not to cause losses to the carrier due to being underweight or to wear out the parts and tires of the vehicle due to being overweight. Knowing the weight carried in the vehicle makes it possible to eliminate the problems listed.
The most common piece of cargo accounting equipment is an on board weighing system. They can be divided into the following groups:
- BSV for medium and heavy-duty vehicles
- Mechanisms of quarrying equipment
- The concept of loading equipment
- System for a Dump Truck
- With the help of special sensors in such BSV concepts, it is possible to control:
- Axle load
- The amount of luggage carried in the vehicle varies.
- Loading and unloading time.
- The workload in general.
Onboard Weighing Systems
The advantage of on board weighing systems is that they can be installed either as original equipment (part of the vehicle) or as an optional product and add new functionality to the vehicle’s telematics system. These systems are increasingly compatible with satellite and GPS (Global Positioning System) technology, enabling drivers and fleet managers to control the weight of the vehicle.
Since these systems are mounted on the vehicle, they cannot record axle loads or gross vehicle weight. These systems can only register extra weight “above them,” although these components can be easily adjusted. Such a system must be installed on every vehicle to be weighed. This can be expensive for projects that use a lot of vehicles.
The use of weighing systems has a huge number of advantages:
- Save loading time: there is no need to recheck weights on the platform.
- Control of cargo loss in transit: for general reporting at origins and stops and disciplining drivers.
- Avoiding excessive penalties allows you to relax and avoid trouble.
- Independent of the position of the scale, luggage assessment can be carried out immediately on the vehicle at any time.
- Exclude premature wear of tires, and the engine, which usually occurs due to overloading.
- significantly less expensive than fixed scales
- high measurement reliability, and no human factors.
- Availability of additional functions such as video control, replica display, and light signaling
On-board weighing systems will definitely save companies shipping costs. There are BSVs on the market for different types of transport, operating conditions, and reading accuracy. Furthermore, by acquiring such a system, the company will gain a mechanism to control logistics, which will enable efficient production.
Overload control systems
The Department of Transport is calling for tougher penalties for road safety breaches. Levitin again reminds us of plans to introduce penalties for being overweight. A 40-ton truck can now carry 15% more cargo than usual without breaking any regulations. This adds up to 6 tonnes of extra weight on the road. The allowable overweight rate will now be reduced from 15% to 5%, which is closer to European standards. In addition, they will grow to 400,000 rubles. Fines for cargo owners and shippers are now available; that is, not only are overweight drivers now held accountable.
The UPC is mounted directly on the vehicle and reports the overloading of individual axles and the entire vehicle.
The on board weighing system and overload control system combined with the satellite tracking system for transportation are the best tools for optimizing the work of automobile transportation enterprises today. The market offers systems for different types of transport, operating conditions, and different reading accuracies.
