NU-12 9 Mark Tacbas concrete mixer weight monitor

From: Mark Tacbas
Date: Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: NU-12 9 Mark Tacbas

Good day sir,

Instead of on- site weighing scale, maybe a built- in weight monitor can address this issue.

Idea: Concrete Truck Weight Monitor

Rationale:

A lot of truck as loaded up to the brim and then travel to populated areas wherein it becomes a threat to vehicles and people around it.

Implementation:
In truck design, add a feature that it can weigh and see through monitor how heavy the truck is carrying. This is added safety feature of the truck so it can load only up to its capacity only. This will assure that the trucks are being loaded accordingly and that it can carry the weight without causing it to breakdown in transit or cause major accidents along the way.

This feature will also helpful in verifying if the volume of cement in truck mixers are delivered according to what is ordered. There are some incidents wherein the driver passes by another site and sells a small volume of mixed concrete before delivering it to the real customer. Even if the customer verifies to the cement plant by looking at it's dispatching documents, the customer won't be able to see some traces of under- delivery because the act was done in- transit. This will eliminate under- delivery of ordered cement that are sometimes being done by third- party cement mix suppliers and their drivers to earn more from their customers, which is basically stealing.  3

On Monday, November 18, 2013 8:46 AM, Jorge Saguinsin <profjorge.entrep@gmail.com> wrote:

Is it feasible Mark?  Baka di kaya pag may cost benefit analysis?  Siguro, a build in load indicator sa mga truck?  Thanks

On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 9:51 PM, Mark Tacbas <emailmarktacbas@yahoo.com> wrote:

Idea: Concrete Truck Weighing Scale

Rationale:

To prevent concrete truck/s from delivering under- volume mixed concrete

Implementation:
In construction site, set- up a truck weighing scale like the ones used by DPWH in identifying overloaded trucks on the road. This will verify if the volume of mixed cement in trucks are delivered according to what is ordered. There are some incidents wherein the driver passes by another site and sells a small volume of mixed concrete before delivering it to the real customer. Even if the customer verifies to the cement plant by looking at it's dispatching documents, the customer won't be able to see some traces of under- delivery because the act was done in- transit. This will eliminate under- delivery of ordered cement that are sometimes being done by third- party cement mix suppliers and their drivers to earn more from their customers, which is basically stealing.

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Prof Jorge Saguinsin

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