You can grow your business—without excess costs—when you use scale software.
Many scrap, aggregate, and landfill business owners want to grow their operations. But they often worry that it may be too costly to be practical.
The truth is that scaling your scrap, aggregate, or landfill business is very doable. The issue may well be that you’re spending too much money in the wrong areas. Investing in one specific tool can help you free up those costs and create space to scale your business.
That tool is truck scale software. Truck scale software is key to boosting efficiency at your scrap yard or landfill, so you can grow your business.
Here are three specific examples of how it will help:
First, reduce personnel costs at the scrap yard.
The personnel costs at a scrapyard, landfill or aggregate business can be very high if you’re using a manual system. Someone needs to sit there and enter all those scale tickets into your accounting software, for starters. Legal compliance can consume a lot of man-hours as well. You might be at your desk until 8:00 pm, typing up all the records you owe to law enforcement.
Every minute spent typing up paper records is a minute you could be using to bring in revenue. But how do you reallocate that time? The answer is truck scale software.
Truck scale software eases drudgery by integrating directly with your accounting software. Legal compliance paperwork is faster, too. Rather than typing up notes yourself, you can click a button to upload every record.
When you automate data storage and data collection processes, the time it takes to execute those tasks shrinks dramatically. As a result, you can run your business with a smaller team. Or you can use those newly available man-hours for activities that will grow your business.
Use scale software to process deliveries faster
With truck scale software, the entire process of accepting delivery is faster. As a result, trucks spend less time in the yard, and scale operators spend less time at the scale. So, scale operators can process more deliveries per day.
The numbers are mind-boggling when you think about that increase in terms of weeks, months, or years.
This efficiency level in the yard is also attractive to customers. Truck drivers often get paid per delivery, so they don’t want to spend excess time waiting around.
Imagine there are two scrap yards or aggregate businesses a driver can choose from.
- Business A uses a manual system, so the driver must sign three copies for every delivery. The driver also has to get their picture taken every time they come through.
- Business B uses truck scale software, so everything is recorded automatically and instantaneously. Business B can pull up digital records, with the driver’s picture and personal information, at the touch of a button.
Odds are the driver will choose the yard that has streamlined the process. Business B will be the winner every time.
Spend less time reconciling typos
How often do you find yourself dealing with the issue of someone writing down the wrong weight? Or worse… How much money have you lost as a result of this problem?
There’s no messing up with digital scale software: The software reads and records the weight directly from the scale. As a result, you’re no longer losing money to accounting errors or spending time fixing them.
The unbeatable accuracy of truck scale software is especially valuable for landfills. Landfills are required by law to deliver detailed reports of certain types of waste to environmental agencies.
Creating these reports manually requires a lot of duplicate effort and repetitive calculations. With truck scale software, you can generate a report in just a few clicks. Your margin of error goes way down, and you earn back a lot of your time.
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Using truck scale software will dramatically change operations and costs at your scrapyard or aggregate business. Scaling your business becomes an achievable goal with all that time and money back in your pocket. Scaleit is an industry-leading truck scale software, with high-quality user training and exceptional back-end support. Scaleit is priced to support a scalable business model, so you’re not paying for more than your business needs. To see Scaleit in action and talk to a software expert, request a demo