Weight Scaling

For clients wishing to purchase/sell forest products on a weight basis, the Bureau has developed a PC based system for collecting and reporting weight scale. This system is developed around the concept of having a weigh master who collects the information and records it in the system.

The system provides a mechanism for collecting and maintaining "Tare" weights for trucks and automatically recalls the latest value when preparing a weight ticket. The identifier used for the tare weights is the license plate number of the vehicle.

The system produces and stores tickets for each load processed. At the end of the day it is capable of reporting the loads in detail by source supplier. Summary reports are available by product, supplier and/or two user defined data fields. These reports are locally produced and printed at the scale location.

The data collected each day may be transmitted to the Bureau mainframe if desired which provides the mechanism for electronic distribution of the data to other entities interested in the scale.

The data recorded for each load includes:

* Weights (gross, tare and net) in pounds
* Net weight in tons
* Source identities (2)
* Load receipt number (2)
* Destination Id
* Product Id
* Ticket Number
* Date and time of scale
* Logger
* User fields (3)

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