best industrial Weighing trucks is an essential part of a coal business, which bases the billing of those who purchase its coal on the weight of that product as it leaves the facility. To obtain a record of the amount of coal being retrieved, each arriving truck parks on a weighbridge to measure its tare (the empty truck's weight prior to its being loaded with coal). Without an system, the driver shows the scale operators a form known as a loading document, and the weigh station's employees record the weight and the truck license plate number for their own records, by keying the numbers into a PC. The truck then enters the facility, is loaded with coal and returns to the weighbridge for a post-load measurement. The weigh station's staff again manually keys the truck's plate number into the weighing program in the company's back-end system. The workers then print out paperwork indicating that weight on a loading document, which is provided to the driver. The weight data is also stored in the company's back-end system. The manual system's greatest shortcoming, the company reports, is the labor required: Workers must examine plates and truck plate numbers every time a vehicle enters or exits the facility. What's more, if the incorrect license plate number is provided to the staff, at the time that the truck either arrives or leaves, billing is thus inaccurate—or, in some cases, if the data is fraudulent (for example, if the truck's license plate number is invalid), billing is not even possible.
