Increased vigilance by traffic authorities as well as the drive for self management in the road transport sector has resulted in an increased demand for weighbridges in SADC countries.

This is the message from Jonathan Palmer, MD of Sasco Africa (Sasco), speaking at the launch of the company’s new generation weighbridge systems.

Jonathan Palmer, MD of Sasco Africa... dealing with increased demand for weighbridges

Sasco, which currently dominates the heavy duty sector of the market with its Bilanciai WB 120 ton and WB 80 ton weighbridges, has intoduced what it calls a new “groundbreaking” weighbridge system that converts a standard pit mounted weighbridge into a dyanamic in-motion axle weigher at the push of a button.

Dubbed “ThruWeigh” the system is aimed largely at quarries, ports and waste site operations. It is able to weigh vehicles at speeds up to 5 km/h to within 1% accuacry. Palmer explains that as soon as a vehicle drives onto the weighbridge, the system measures and records the first axle weight, when the second  axle comes onto the deck, it subtracts the first axle weight from the new weight reading to give the second axle weight. This procedure continues until all axles have been individually weighed.