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Ensures payload and profits are not left behind. Avoid waiting in queues for weighbridge tickets and then having to discharge or return to the loading facility to have a bit more payload added. Loading to your legal maximum when and where you need to saves time, fuel and weighbridge ticket costs.
Reduces the cost of out-of-route miles
Avoids having to drive to inconvenient weighbridges. Having an onboard weighing system prevents the need for these additional costly journeys and helps to reduce any disputes with consigning firms over weights and charges.
Optimises payload and prevents overloading
A commercial vehicle can only run to its maximum efficiency if it’s operating at its maximum legal plated weight. We all know that under loading is inefficient, and overloading is illegal. A vehicle weighed by an enforcement officer from VOSA, the Police or Trading Standards and found to be overloaded on gross weight, axle weight or both, puts the company and the driver at risk of prosecution. The Traffic Commissioner may well take disciplinary action against the operator’s licence. Current maximum fines are £5000 for each offence. Serious overloads can lead to additional licence endorsements and disqualification without any statutory defence. Running the risk of being overloaded is simply not worth it.
Reduces vehicle wear and tear and increases vehicle stability
It is often not realised that running overloaded vehicles is highly dangerous. Overloading causes the truck to become unstable and impairs the handling capability of the vehicle, posing a risk to the driver, other road uses and residents. Braking distances are extended considerably. It also increases the risk of catastrophic failures of tyres, brakes, suspensions systems, and running gear.
Most transport managers would agree that, in today’s competitive world, it is essential to know what your vehicles are doing and where they are.
Shrewd waste operators calculate the direct profit and loss for each and every collection. A trade waste transport company, like any other enterprise, has fixed and variable costs. A significant variable element arises from disposal, usually incurred and aggregated across all of its customers. However, customers who consistently produce heavier waste will undermine the profit potential from their collection contract. Calculating the profit and loss of each and every collection allows operators to ‘cherry pick’, leaving the heavier customers to some other waste operator. Charging a fixed rate for the job means that light waste producers are effectively subsidising the heavier ones. A shrewd waste operator is quick to spot that lighter waste customers have a greater profit potential than the heavier ones. BinWeigh™ gives operators the tools to increase productivity and profitability.
Preventing unauthorised/fraudulent collections
Our experiences working with operators have revealed a number of unorthodox practices. For instance, it is not uncommon for a truck to deviate slightly from its round to collect from a ‘friend’. Vishay PM recently installed a waste container identification system for an operator only to discover an additional 168 waste containers, which were not being charged for. Drivers were simply collecting waste from three containers when the contract was for one, because they hadn’t been properly informed. Another council estimated that up to 8% of its waste was unauthorised, which included householders running businesses from home and small business taking their commercial waste home. BinWeigh™ will allow you to collect authorised bins only; rejecting bins not on the authorised round.
Better route planning and improved vehicle utilisation
By accurately collecting waste information from customers, historical data can be analysed to improve route planning. It allows management to predict and then plan for cyclic variations, reducing the need for inefficient second half loads.
On trade and commercial collections there is nothing to stop operators invoicing by weight at the point of collection. When we talk about Direct Variable Rate charging we mean the householder is directly charged for the weight of waste sent for disposal, as is the case in many European Countries.
Accessing large contracts
Local authorities are beginning to specify onboard weighing and bin weighing in their collection contracts.
Where bin identification is employed, residents’ claims of missed collections can be easily validated as precise time and location of adjacent bins can be checked.
Key performance indicators/Waste data flow
Weighing waste at the kerbside gives waste managers precise data about the waste material being collected. Measuring the effectiveness of a waste reduction and recycling scheme is key for future waste strategy policy making. It also gives an insight into how well a recycling scheme is progressing, allowing individuals to be targeted for good or poor participation.
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