The problem
Four ways your payload data is wrong today.
The weighbridge is a single number arriving at a single point. It tells you what the truck weighed at the bridge — not what left the loader, not what stayed stuck in the bed, not whether the load was centred. The difference shows up in trucking factor, in tyre wear, and in quarterly reconciliation meetings nobody enjoys.
Underload / Overload
Volume guesses, not measurements.
Operators fill by eye. Revenue leaks both ways — under on capacity, over on tyre wear and fuel.
Carryback
Sticky residue inflates empty-bed baselines.
Every cycle drifts. Tonnage accuracy erodes quietly until someone runs the numbers at quarter close.
Off-centre loading
Suspensions wear. Spillage builds up.
Bias in load distribution costs maintenance budgets and hauls material onto haul roads. Invisible to a bridge.
Drift between scan and bridge
Reconciliation isn't a control point.
Losses between loading and weighbridge are attributed to "shrinkage" because nothing else can describe them.
