Scale Calibrations
As a truck scale owner, you understand how important it is that your scale maintains proper scale calibration. Even the smallest error or improper scale calibration could contribute significantly to potential revenue loss. No matter what you are weighing, you rely on your scale to deliver accurate results for maximum revenue potential. Turn to Scales, Sales and Service to service your truck scale to ensure you are obtaining top dollar for all things you’re weighing.
Accurate Weighing
Avoid overload fees with proper scale calibration. Calibration plays a key role in running your business properly. It ensures that you are not overcharging a customer or undercharging, resulting in substantial profit loss or even if you will get fined by the state for being overweight. Every truck scale, rail scale, lab scale or any scale really should be calibrated and tested frequently to ensure proper performance. It is standard that our scales have two calibrations per year.
If you are already weighing low cost products and don’t think being off a few pounds will matter, it does. To be in compliance with the state, you need to ensure your scale is properly calibrated and tested by a licensed technician. Proper scale calibration comes standard with all Scales, Sales and Service scales and can be done by one of our many certified scale calibration certified technicians.
What to consider when determining how often you should calibrate your scale:
Number of weight measurements done per day
How many days your scale is used annually
Price of products being weighed
Acceptable error rate
Quality Service
Service is not only in our name; it is at the core of our business. Our scale calibration service technicians use NIST Traceable certified test weights for regular scale and high precision analytical balances, applying the appropriate and necessary calibrating techniques to improve your equipment’s dependability. If you are doing legal-for-trade weighing, it is vitally important your scale is properly calibrated. We take pride in servicing your business in a timely and efficient manner, offering on-site calibrations to ensure your business remains at the highest level of productivity. In case of an emergency, you can rest easy knowing that our technicians are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
All Scales, Sales and Service scales, whether they be cannabis scales, agricultural scales, truck scales, rail scales, or even lab scales, we calibrate them all. With a scale from us, you are guaranteed to have a scale calibration done every year; some scales require bi-annual calibrations. We offer PM, preventative maintenance, with all our scales no matter the size, type, make, or model.
Scales, Sales and Service can service any brand of scale from heavy to light capacity, including the support equipment that keeps your business running efficiently. Let us customize a preventative maintenance plan to fit your needs!
Frequently Asked Questions
Calibrating truck scales is very important as it enhances functionality and ensures the accuracy of the truck scales. Regular calibration ensures seamless operations of these scales. Accuracy is what defines truck scales proper calibration ensures that the need for accuracy is met properly in this manner. Calibration can help save businesses from heavy penalties or repair costs, as it leads to analyzing and detecting any software errors or physical damage, such as cable cuts, wrecked or uncompressing load cells, cracks on the deck’s surface, etc. Also saves companies from overloading, facing heavy fines and penalties due to failure in compliance with local laws and regulations because of incorrect measurements. Accuracy in measurements can help in fair billing and prevent the loading of unnecessary materials.
The duration of calibration might vary depending on your frequency of use or weighing loads per day, the amount of weight per session, and also regarding regulatory requirements. Annual calibration is necessary for many of today’s enterprises so as to ascertain consistency as well as conformity to local rules and regulations. Extensive repairs and maintenance jobs might lead to a slight change in the position of the load cells. Calibration should be done after extensive repairs or routine maintenance on the truck scales in order to ensure proper functioning. Calibration of the scale will be necessary if it has been shifted or relocated and its condition or setup might have changed. It is important to check if the scale is functioning properly and delivering accurate results and data. Under extreme variations in weather, temperatures, humidities, and other environmental factors, calibration intervals may need to be shortened. The performance of the truck scale may vary by environmental factors and that is why regular calibration will be necessary.
Regular calibration of truck scales benefits companies hugely. Some of these benefits are:
Determining Damages: Calibration helps in determining any form of damage on the cables, load cells or the deck of the truck scales. This helps in getting regular repairs and maintenance to enhance the life span of these scales.
Saving Expenses: Regular calibration helps in finding errors in reading and faulty areas, attaining to fix these errors can save businesses from heavy penalties due to breaking local laws due to overloading, the reason being incorrect weight measurements. Calibration also helps in detecting potential damages which can be repaired immediately and might prevent more damage and expensive repair or replacement costs.
Accurate Weighing: Calibration ensures, precise weighing and smooth functioning of the truck scales. Accuracy is the core feature of these weighing instruments and calibration makes sure that they continue to serve the same.
Proper Functioning: Regular calibration helps in proper operations of truck scales and ensure accurate weight measurements and functioning of each and every part of these scales.
Improving Longevity: Regular calibration improves the lifespan of truck scales as it helps in timely repairs and maintenance, and replacement of any parts if required.
Truck scales are calibrated to ensure precise weighing and detect any damages or errors in any part of the scale. It helps in enhancing the lifespan, thus keeping it running seamlessly and measuring weights regularly with full accuracy. Calibration is very important and should be conducted on a regular basis. Calibration is necessary for every truck scale to assure reliability and accuracy on the truck scales.