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Prime installing onboard scales for time, cost savings

Published Saturday, March 01, 2008

Prime, North America's largest refrigerated carrier, is outfitting its entire fleet of Class 8 trucks with Right Weigh onboard load scales. The move is being done to increase efficiency and safety, say officials at the carrier. Prime is using Right Weigh's exterior-mounted scale Model 310-54 to monitor its trailers and the interior dash-mounted Model 510-46 for its tractors. The Model 310-54 displays, on an analog dial face, the truck's real on-the-ground axle weight measurement, instead of a standard suspension PSI (pounds per square inch) value. The scale is pre-mounted in an impact resistant, all-weather enclosure. The Model 510-46 ...

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