Second visit · After estimate approval & down payment
Operational Efficiency Audit
After your Scale House Assessment, estimate approval, and down payment, a separate Efficiency Audit visit times truck flow and maps the bottlenecks that slow the scale house — then delivers a written Efficiency Report with Recommendations that shows what your site would gain from Scale House automation. Built for grain elevators, gravel and aggregate, concrete and asphalt plants, scrap and recycling, logging and sawmills, and beet and potato receiving. Not part of the first assessment visit.
Second visit after estimate approval and down payment. Starts with a Scale House Assessment (from $350; travel varies; fee credited toward setup if you proceed).
What we observe on site
The Efficiency Audit is its own site visit — scheduled after you approve the estimate and pay a down payment. It is not bundled into the first Scale House Assessment visit.
Truck flow timing, gate to exit
Arrive gate → on scale → off scale → unload start/end → exit. Turnaround and wait times are measured, not guessed.
Wait points
Where trucks sit: line at the scale, wait after weighing, wait for sampling or quality checks, wait for paperwork or dispatch.
Double entry
Weights, grades, or ticket data retyped into a second system — office, spreadsheet, or accounting.
Sampling / quality checks
Time tied up at grading, sampling, moisture or other quality stations, ticket review, or load verification while the next truck waits.
Peak-season backups
How the same flow behaves when trucks stack up — harvest, pour season, scrap surge, or log haul peaks.
How Scale House automation improves efficiency
Software on the scale house floor cuts the waits that paperwork creates. The Efficiency Audit measures how much of that time your site is leaving on the table today — so the report shows what you would gain by capturing weights, load details, and quality data once, at the source.
Weights captured straight from the scale
No retyping ticket weights. Read-only capture from your indicator — certified / NTEP weights stay untouched.
Quality and instrument readings on the ticket
Grades, samples, and readings from instruments you already own move onto the ticket instead of being retyped by hand.
Faster truck turnaround and shorter lines
Less time per truck at the window means the line moves — especially at peak season.
No double entry into accounting
Tickets and settlement data go to the office systems you already use — API or clean file import — without a second keyboard.
Tickets and reports on staff phones
Scale house and office staff can pull tickets and reports from a phone or tablet instead of walking paper or calling across the yard.
Fewer office phone calls
When the ticket already has weight, load details, and status, the office stops calling the scale house for the same numbers.
What the written report contains
- Turnaround averages and wait-to-scale times from timed trucks.
- Top bottlenecks with estimated minutes per truck and hours per season.
- Prioritized recommendations — what to fix first, including where Scale House automation would cut wait and retyping time.
- Clear link back to the Scale House Assessment quote when software or connectivity changes are part of the fix.
How it fits with the assessment
Visit 1 — Scale House Assessment: equipment inventory, ticket-flow review, recommended setup with a fixed-price quote, and connectivity (from $350; credited toward setup). Then we send the estimate. Visit 2 — Efficiency Audit: after you approve the estimate and pay a down payment, a second site visit produces the Efficiency Report with Recommendations (from $750). Check the interest box on the request form if you want the Efficiency Audit discussed with your estimate — it is not performed on visit 1.
Express interest
Start with a Scale House Assessment request. The link below opens the form with Efficiency Audit interest already checked — so we know to discuss the second visit after the estimate.
Software only. Read-only capture; certified / NTEP weights are never modified. Not affiliated with any commodity buyer or scale manufacturer.