Cardinal Scale Offers ARMOR Steel Deck Digital Truck Scales
BY AsphaltPro Staff
Cardinal Scale Manufacturing Co., Webb City, Missouri, offers the ARMOR steel deck digital truck scales, which are optimized for cold climate operations and manufactured with a variety of features to benefit all-season weighing needs. They have no moving parts below the scale deck, which means snow or ice accumulation along the foundation won’t create binding to affect the scale. The checkered steel decks are constructed of tread plate for optimized vehicle traction and there’s no external checking for ice to accumulate and affect weighing.
The scales incorporate SmartCell digital load cells, which are completely encapsulated. The SmartCell SCBD load cells are mounted up high within the load cell pocket to keep them away from accumulating snow and ice.
You might be running an asphalt plant that would never load out during a snow event, but the ARMORs are built with a wide-open bottom weighbridge with I-beam construction and no interior spaces, which prevents water collecting that can change to ice, according to the manufacturer. The weighbridge’s I-beams run the complete length from end plate to end plate and surround the load cell pocket, protecting it from stress fractures, according to the manufacturer.
The scales work with iSite remote monitoring, where e-mail/text alerts to your scale service company notify them about any potential issues before they affect your truck scale’s performance. This means maximum uptime for your weighing operation. In the rare event of a load cell issue, SCBD load cells can be replaced in five minutes, according to the manufacturer.