Weight-based invoicing thanks to a Legal for Trade weighing system

To be able and allowed to invoice by weight, the weighing system you use must be a Legal for Trade weighing system. In popular speech, people often talk about calibrating a weighing system, but in relation to invoicing based on weight we talk about verifications.

To ensure that everyone applies the same rules when inspecting a scale, the OIML International Organisation of Legal Metrology) provides unambiguous regulations around weighing.

Requirements for a verified weighing system

All makes and models of warehouse trucks and forklifts can be equipped with a Legal for Trade mobile weighing system. There are also several models of pallet trucks available that already have a verified weighing system suitable for weight-based invoicing.

It is important that the components of the weighing system, such as the indicator and load cells, as well as the complete assembled system, meet various requirements. If you opt for a RAVAS pallet truck then this is obviously the case but for your other brands of warehouse trucks and forklift trucks this will not pose any problems in almost all cases.

The NMi takes care of the certification of these components. Components are tested for all kinds of things, such as operating under varying temperatures, electromagnetic radiation, security and, of course, how accurately the components react. In addition, every Legal for Trade weighing system includes a level switch that switches off the display if the scale tilts more than two degrees. This is to prevent weighing errors. And furthermore, the weight weighed must be directly readable by the operator from a display.

Inspection of your weighing system

Verifying a weighing system for Legal for Trade is checking and, if necessary, adjusting a system. Using weights, we determine the accuracy of the weighing system and reveal any discrepancies. Any discrepancies are adjusted so that the system again meets the standard.

Every verified weighing system is tested according to standards laid down in OIML legislation, and delivered with a certificate. This certificate states, among other things, the name of the manufacturer, the product, the serial number, the approval number under which the product was certified, the standards according to which the weighing system was checked and stamped, and the gravity factor with which the initial check was carried out.