Truck scale software
Truck scale software, also known in the European Union and the United Kingdom as "weighbridge software", is a class of software pertaining to the collection of transactional scale weighment data. Specifically for truck scales used to weigh heavy trucks, light trucks, or other commercial vehicles. The basic concept of truck scale software is to provide the end user with a means of collecting and organizing weighment information.
Developers
With consumers ranging from single-site low transaction "mom and pop shops" to multi-national heavy volume corporations, the truck scale industry is not a highly vertical niche market. Truck scale software development companies have ample opportunity to differentiate by targeting the very different needs of the specific consumer types.The basic concept of truck scale software is to provide the end user with a means of collecting and organizing weighment information.
Vendors
Before the software industry found the truck scale niche scale users would either have to come up with their own customized methods for tracking data, or require that the scale vendor provide one as part of the weighing system. This led to scale vendors needing to be able to provide data collection and management solutions in order to compete.Today, scale vendors are still offering simple solutions with systems, sometimes in direct competition with the software developers who are creating much more powerful data collection packages and dynamic user-friendly interfaces. Many of the larger scale vendors however, have started referring to certain truck scale software packages or directly reselling them.
Sometimes, truck scale software is part of a much larger software. Many targeted ERPs for industries like quarry/mining/agriculture contain interface module for weighbridges.
Some truck scale manufacturers develop and sell their own software for weigh system interfacing and data collection.