Johnsons Hotel, Restaurant & Catering Linen is using 45 Axtec OnBoard Load Indicators to help ensure its vehicle loads are safe and compliant.
The Southall-based linen and laundry supplier has fitted the system to new additions on its mixed fleet of 3.5-tonne vans and 7.5-tonners to accurately monitor vehicle loading and unloading.
As linen collected from establishments is often wet, weights can be difficult to predict and vary considerably day-to-day. With multiple collections and deliveries made over a small area of operation, axle overloading, therefore, represents a significant risk.
Axtec’s Onboard Load Indicator accurately monitors vehicle loading and unloading, and eliminates risks for Johnsons’ vehicle fleet, which is maintained by Seven Asset Management.
“It’s crucial we have precise, real-time measurement of load weights,” said Mick Freeman, logistics general manager at Johnsons. “We’ve had experience of other rather inaccurate systems historically, but Axtec came recommended and we had the vehicles specced with their Onboard Load Indicator.
“We can see at a glance whether an axle is over or under,” he added, “and the system appears very accurate. Drivers describe ease-of-use, and acceptance across the fleet has been very good. There’s total peace-of-mind that we’re running legally and safely.”
Axtec’s Onboard Load Indicator provides the driver with real-time axle loads, presented by a simple graphic showing pallets of bricks which increase or decrease in size in proportion to weights. Axle loading is represented intuitively in colour, showing legal axles in green, approaching maximum in amber and overloads in red.
All the necessary information is displayed to the driver on one easy-to-read screen, enabling them to utilise the vehicle safely right up to its legal maximum, without the risk of inadvertent overloads.
