| The Future of Weighing Technology is here now! Our 77 Years Experience and ISO9001:2000 International quality Accreditation is your guarantee! Weighbridges have been used for trade since the late 1800’s. As road vehicles and trains have become larger, the weighbridges have become larger, with weighing available for Semi-trailer, B-Double (25 m) and even Road Trains (36 m). Weighbridges are found in Industrial areas, Truck stops and near highways. Weighbridges has to be durable, accurate and even mobile. Trucks are weighed on weighbridges for two main reasons: to weigh products being sold - the load on a semi-trailer with 25 tonnes nett can be worth more than $20,000. The cost of weighing is small compared to being short delivered on a load being purchased! Weighing systems such as weighbridges become important in the transport industry. to check whether they are overloaded - trucks can damage road surfaces and bridges. Trucks are much more difficult to stop when overloaded and accidents are more likely to occur. For safety reasons it is illegal for a truck to be overloaded. Heavy fines are imposed on offenders.
There are two types of weighbridges: Road weighbridges for truck weighing and other road vehicle weighing, and Rail weighbridges for rail wagons and trains
Both road and rail weighbridges work on the same principle of either an electronic (compression electronic load cells ) or mechanical lever systems to measure load. The mechanical lever system works by a series of "breakdown" levers that reduce the load on a lever system that "pivots" the load to reduce the load at the other end of the lever. This is the same principle as moving a tree trunk on the ground by using a rock and a pole near the tree to lever it. Electronics has been introduced to weighbridges for a number of reasons, but chiefly to enable electronic displays and computerization of weighing scales. Electronic scales are easier to install. In Australia weighbridges for trade use must be pattern approved by the National Measurement Institute in Lindfield, Sydney and overseas by O.I.M.L., a standards body.
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Trakblaze P/L, an ISO9001:2000 Quality Endorsed Company with 77 years experience, is a Train Weighing Systems company, specialising in manufacturing, servicing, import and export of weighing equipment worldwide. Trakblaze is the first Australian weighing company to achieve ISO9001:2000 quality accreditation in 1994. This is your guarantee of accurate, reliable & high quality weigh equipment and the first company in the world to achieve 85kmh Govt. trade approved' in 2003. "Static and In-Motion Train Weighing" is a very specialized field, and Trakblaze is the only company in the world that have the most comprehensive range of train scales including, high speed in line systems and portable train scales for all passenger, freight trains, rail workshop and any type of rail or road vehicle. All of our systems involve "Load Cell" technology which is the only genuinely recognized method of long term accurate and reliable weighing and is the exact principal weighbridges, people scales and every other general scale is based upon. This combined with our IT, mechanical and electronic engineers, makes "Trakblaze" the leader in Static and In-Motion Train Weighing systems. Although "Static" & "In-motion" train weighing is our main focus, we also manufacture and supply similar systems for Road Transport. Our aim for the future is to continually be recognized as the experts in what we do throughout the world.
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