For over 60 years Precision Scale has known that in waste transport, accurate weight is the backbone of efficient, profitable, and compliant operations. Truck scales—whether fixed weighbridges at transfer stations, landfills, and material recovery facilities (MRFs), or onboard systems on collection vehicles—provide precise inbound/outbound operations that calculate tonnage for billing, tipping fees, and payload optimization. This ensures haulers can maximize payloads, while reducing vehicle wear, fuel costs, and safety risks. Industry-leading Avery Weigh-Tronix instrumentation generates reliable data for route planning and regulatory reporting. In recycling streams, our scales track incoming mixed waste or sorted recyclables, helping facilities quantify diverted materials, monitor diversion rates, and support accurate revenue sharing or rebates with municipalities and generators.

Beyond trucks, larger-scale transport and processing rely on specialized weighing solutions to maintain flow and accountability. Railroad scales (in-motion or static) enable high-volume bulk waste or recovered commodities—like baled recyclables, RDF (refuse-derived fuel), or construction debris—to be weighed directly on trains moving at operational speeds, supporting long-haul transport to distant processing sites or export terminals while ensuring compliance with truck and car load limits and preventing penalties. Conveyor belt scales, integrated into sorting lines, shredders, and material handlers at MRFs, continuously measure throughput in real time—tracking tons per hour of sorted plastics, metals, paper, or residuals—to optimize equipment performance, detect inefficiencies, minimize material loss, and provide verifiable data for process control, inventory management, and sustainability metrics. Together, these systems transform waste from an unpredictable cost center into a measurable resource stream, driving higher recovery rates, lower operational expenses, and stronger environmental outcomes across the entire chain.