Avoid getting un-intentionally shorted on the big scale

What is the 3 dollar fee? That would add up to a lot of money over a year time.

Our yard has certified scales
A lot of the moving company's and others also use them
Drive on >> Horn blows >> Drive off >> Off load material >> Drive back on >> Horn blows >> pull off scale and go into office to get paid

I can't imagine any winds short of hurricane affecting the scale that much
Scale right now for cars is 95 a ton or .0475 a pounds
So 160 pounds would be $7.60
No need to confirm the weight with the yard while still on the scale before going into the yard and then again when leaving before you pull off the scale
Waste of time , The CERTIFIED weights, in and out, are printed right on the weigh slip with the amount paid
There is no read out that can be seen from the cab of the truck, only place where the weight can be seen is at the machine that prints the ticket

If the wind did make you lite 160 pounds on the weigh in >> how do you know it didn't make you 160 pounds lite on the way out? Thereby giving you "true" weight
OR maybe at some point the wind has made you heavy on weigh in and lite on weigh out >> Isn't that were the song "extra money blowing in the wind" came from??

I have a outside display . So the customers can see their weights.

Originally Posted by missouri

I have a outside display . So the customers can see their weights.

And does the wind on a normal day affect the weight?

I have seen the wind affected it . But you wait for the weight to quit moving around to stamp the ticket. I have taken loads in a shredder and seen the wind blowing it around . As much as 400 pounds or more. Normally mine is only 20 to 80 pounds.

Normal day no. But when you pull on any scale . It will move around as you on driving on it.

Originally Posted by missouri

Normal day no. But when you pull on any scale . It will move around as you on driving on it.

That I understand >> and as soon as it settles out , they punch the ticket , blow the horn and away I go
I have always figured if there is any discrepancy > 50/50 chance it is in the yards favor >> as well as there is a 50/50 chance it is in my favor

It all evens out in the end

I have found that wind can alter the scale weight, that's the normal nonferrous scale too.
It would affect the larger vehicle scales even more.

One place had their nonferrous scales near the corner of the building & I could feel the wind alternating more from one side of the building, then the other, and watch the scales readout weight change by 2 kg.
They were leaving a low profile skip bin on it with a low slope underneath @ both ends and I could see how he wind as hitting it underneath & lifting it up a bit.. I don't go there anymore, it's a bit far away & once I figured out how they were short changing me I decided they don't want my scrap if they are not paying for it..

Oddly, I once set a sack of metal on the nonferrous scales & we watched it take a while to tare it up.
I joked "That my scales at home read One Kg heavier than theirs" and for comedy value only, lent over and blow downwards onto the sack of metal, and we both looked expectantly at the readout..
It then moved up by One Kg & sat there without moving.
We both laughed & I said "I didn't actually think it would do that"
& He chuckled, shook his head & shrugged & said "Well that's what the scales say, and I haven't written the weight down yet, so that's what it weighs.
I knew he had a story worthy of a laugh, to tell somebody afterwards too.

$3.00 Fee? What a joke

Both yards I use you can see the weight while on the scale driving in.

I know most folks think you need hurricane winds (80+), but trust me when I tell you...40 mph can suck also. lol. I had to ride a bike one day in 30 to 40mph winds. My upper body was killing me for days after. Didn't have the luxury to go with the wind. Also a lot of folks live in places with buildings, or trees. Things that break wind. So..40mph ain't much to them. Live in the desert, plains, or like me currently on a sandbar. My sandbar has height restrictions. Nothing is over 2 or 3 stories. No tall office buildings, or apartment buildings, etc. So no wind breaks. 20 mph with nothing deflecting is fun times I tell you. Go camping in a tent in a windstorm. Talk about hair raising... Did that unintentionally when I was in Arizona on my little multi month camping jaunt til I came back east. Set up camp, went to go to bed around 10 that night, spent the next 3 or 4 hours trying to redistribute weight in my tent so I didn't go flying off into the night. Haha. Was like riding a bucking bronco.

Yea...wind is sneaky. An deceiving.

No it adds nothing to the thread but..eh, whatever, I'm about to have a hurricane come and visit.

Sirscrapalot - Wind...it's very loud at times. Ask anyone who has experienced a tornado or hurricane.