Getting the Weight Right
During Harvest Season
September means more trucks crossing the scale than almost any other time of year. Corn and sorghum harvest is underway, and every load that gets weighed is a number someone gets paid on. This is the wrong month to find out your scale has been drifting.
Every load is a settlement, not just a number
At an elevator or a farm scale used for settling grain, the weight on the ticket is the weight someone gets paid for. There is no room for a reading that is a little off. A scale that drifts even slightly can mean shorting a farmer on a load, or a buyer paying for more than what actually came in. Either way, it becomes a dispute nobody wants to have in the middle of a busy harvest.
That is exactly why scales used in commercial grain transactions have to be NTEP certified. It is not a formality. It is what makes the number on the ticket something both sides can trust without a second thought.
Volume finds problems that a slow month hides
A scale that only sees a handful of trucks a week can carry a small issue for a long time before anyone notices. Harvest changes that. When forty or fifty trucks a day are crossing the same platform, drift, slow settling, or an inconsistent reading gets exposed fast, usually right when there is the least time to deal with it.
Checking a truck scale before the harvest rush, rather than during it, is the difference between a five minute fix and a full day of trucks backed up waiting on a scale that is not reading right.
What a pitless design means for harvest traffic
Our truck scales are above ground and pitless, which pays off more during a high traffic season than people expect. There is no pit to collect grain dust, debris, or moisture from repeated truck traffic, and no drainage system to maintain in the middle of a busy week. Less maintenance during harvest means fewer interruptions when you can least afford them.
What to check before
the trucks start rolling
A few things are worth confirming before harvest hits full swing. Whether the scale has been calibrated since last season. Whether readings have been consistent on test loads. And whether the indicator and junction box are functioning the way they should, since those are common points of trouble during high volume use.
If it has been a while since your truck scale was serviced, now is the time, before the trucks start lining up.
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