Instant Weighing is the WA State Distributor of the Australian-made COMPULOAD series of front-end loader scales for your Council’s front-end loaders. Instant Weighing also provides (for a fee) onsite annual calibration testing and written test reports.
When Council is preparing the tender document for a new front-end loader, the following should be considered when determining if scales should be part of that tender. This is to help Council management meet the Chain of Responsibility laws (so staff not are not overloading your vehicles) and the Federal Governments laws – if the weights recorded by the scale are used to determine either a buy or sell price of the product loaded (see point 5 below).
- Would your tender be a WALGA tender (by invitation only) or a Public tender open to all Machinery Dealers to respond to?
- If a WALGA tender, would you be prepared to let Instant Weighing know which Machinery Dealers Council has asked to participate in the tender so that Instant Weighing can provide quotes to those Machinery Dealers only for the Australian-made COMPULOAD series of front-end loader scales?
THE COMPULOAD 6000 FRONT-END LOADER SCALE – (SEE ATTACHED BROCHURE)
3. The COMPULOAD 6000 can store weight data against the following entered data (and print a docket (see point 5)) showing data such as:
- Date and Time the loading commenced
- Council Allocated Job Number
- Type of Products loaded
- Rego Nos. of the trucks loaded
- The COMPULOAD 4070 onboard printer allows a weight docket showing all bucket loads and the saved data, including date and time (to be printed and given to the truck driver to carry in case he meets up with the Main Roads Department Inspector). The operator can also request an optional second summary docket for the loader driver records (if required).
- If you are a Country Council, does Council seek to buy gravel, sand, etc from farmers for road construction or road repairs? If yes, does Council use the weights displayed on the scale as part of the formula to calculate the amount payable to the farmer for the products quarried from their property? By Federal Government Laws, the scale used to do this must be a TRADE APPROVED scale which our TRADE APPROVED COMPULOAD 6000 scale is. (the COMPULOAD 6000 can be supplied to Council, either as a TRADE APPROVED scale or as a NON-Trade Approved scale (there is a price difference)).
- If the loader is operating in either 3G or 4G coverage, the COMPULOAD 6000 scale can now, as an optional extra, electronically transmit (via iCloud) all weight data back to an office PC at the same time as the loading of the truck is completed, and the optional docket is printed. (Your Works Supervisor can monitor all works in the process from his office computer).
- The COMPULOAD 6000 comes with a USB which allows stored data to be downloaded onto a USB stick and taken back to an office PC for downloading the weight data of work done if the above optional iCloud is not used.
THE COMPULOAD 2000MKII FRONT-END LOADER SCALE – (SEE ATTACHED BROCHURE)
- The COMPULOAD 2000MKII dynamic weighing scale and COMPULOAD 4070 onboard printer is the other COMPULOAD scale available if either Data Storage or a TRADE APPROVED scale is not required as part of your front-end loader tender.
SELECT THE COMPULOAD 5000 SCALE IF YOUR LOADER IS FITTED WITH A QUICK HITCH & NEITHER DATA STORAGE NOR A TRADE-APPROVED SCALE IS REQUIRED – (SEE ATTACHED BROCHURE)
If any of the above raises questions that need to be answered, call Instant Weighing on Ph 9274 8600 or email us for the answers. All the above scales can connect to our onboard COMPULOAD 4070 printer (this is compulsory for TRADE APPROVED scales)
REMEMBER to specify COMPULOAD scales (naming which models you require) in your tender specification.
All the best with your Council’s tendering process.
Graham Sidney – Director – Instant Weighing