July 20, 2014

This month the UK’s largest privately owned waste management company, Grundon, will have installed the ENVIROWEIGH bin weighing system from Vehicle Weighing Solutions Ltd (VWS) to over 50 of its trade waste collection vehicles and the number is set to keep rising.

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Stephen Townsend, Group Fleet Manager, Grundon explains:
“Many customers now stipulate bin-weighing equipment on tender specifications so this is a direct response to market demand. At the moment we use the technology to identify heavy containers, but ultimately we are moving towards pay by weight because that’s what our customers are starting to ask for.”

July 15, 2014

In 2012 Simply Waste Solutions made a commitment to use Vehicle Weighing Solutions (VWS) equipment on its fleet and, true to its word, the company has just installed ENVIROWEIGH, VWS’s market leading and highly accurate bin-weighing system, to its two new Dennis Eagle Olympus 23 refuse vehicles with Beta trade bin-lifts.

Simply Waste operates in the Greater London area and offers a host of waste management services including such as wheeled bin collections, skips, recycling, junk collection, confidential waste and hazardous waste. This is the company’s second order from VWS following the installation of underbody weighing systems and one bin-weighing system to 6 refuse vehicles in 2012.

July 08, 2014

Cambridge City Council has found a successful way to keep its weighing equipment in perfect order whilst keeping costs to a minimum.  For the past 5 years, under-body weighing kit on the authority’s 25 strong fleet of refuse vehicles has been maintained by Vehicle Weighing Solutions (VWS) under a fixed price contract that is renewed annually.

David Cox, Fleet Manager, Cambridge City Council said: “We need our weighing equipment to be in good working order to avoid any over-loading, which could threaten our operators license. Before we used VWS weighing equipment we used to have to pay every time a load cell failed.”

June 11, 2014

The market leader in onboard vehicle weighing, wheeled bin-weighing and load protection systems, Vehicle Weighing Solutions (VWS), is returning to RWM this year with a brand new product range – APOLLO – the next generation of in-motion and static axle-by-axle weighing.

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Julian Glasspole, Managing Director, VWS said: “The accuracy of our APOLLO Axle Weighing System is hard to beat plus it is easy to install and cost effective. We are looking forward to showing RWM visitors this exciting new range of products.”

May 25, 2015

Guildford-based Chambers Waste Management PLC, trade waste and recycling providers for over 40 years, has equipped its latest fleet of vehicles with on-board weighing equipment from Vehicle Weighing Solutions Ltd (VWS). The equipment facilitates the company’s pay by weight service and ensures that customers pay for waste collections proportionately.

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Two years ago Chambers Waste Management called in VWS when a bin-weigher supplied by a competitor wasn’t operating properly. VWS rectified the problem and Chambers went on to order VWS’ Enviroweigh dynamic bin-weigher for its Geesink Norba RCV.

May 17, 2015

Vehicle Weighing Solutions Ltd (VWS) has been helping North London based waste management company, KP Waste, introduce a ‘pay as you throw’ service for customers, by installing the dynamic ENVIROWEIGH bin-weighing system to the company’s food waste collection vehicle operating in the City.

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Kevin Hill, Managing Director, KP Waste said: “There can be a huge differential in the weight of different food stuffs filling the same bin and its unfair to charge customers the same. The bin weighing system from VWS is so accurate and it means we can do reports for our customers so they can compare their food disposal day by day and week by week.”

March 27, 2014

British traffic & vehicle monitoring solutions company, Applied Traffic, is launching its latest innovation in traffic data collection, the Bat-Box, at this year’s Intertraffic exhibition in Amsterdam (25-28 March).

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The Bat-Box is an inconspicuous device, which is easy to install, user friendly and can be attached to existing street furniture. The radar detects and records the passage of motor vehicles and/or bicycles over a range of scenarios that include multi-lane highways, bi-directional traffic lanes, paths, lanes and cycle tracks. It classifies accurately in real time and is equipped with an integrated GSM/GPRS modem for streaming data, such as direction, lane, speed and length, to a back office computer, server or cloud based data storage system.

March 25, 2014

Following months of trials, Shanks, a leading international sustainable waste management business, has recently selected the ENVIROWEIGH bin-weighing system from Vehicle Weighing Solutions Ltd (VWS) for 16 of its refuse vehicles as well as the company’s Loadweigh-CAN under-body weighing system for 8 Front End Loaders, all manufactured and installed by Vehicle Weighing Solutions Ltd (VWS).

Julian Glasspole, Managing Director, VWS said: “All the systems are weights and measures approved and were fully tested for 9 months by Shanks before we installed them.”

March 21, 2014

Already the market leader in vehicle on-board and underbody weighing systems, Vehicle Weighing Solutions (VWS) is expanding its product range to include the APOLLO range of Axle Weighbridges, offering slow speed and portable weighing solutions for the fleet operator and enforcement agencies.

Manufactured in Britain by VWS the APOLLO system is the next generation of in-motion and static axle-by-axle weighing.

March 17, 2014

Vehicle Weighing Solutions and Hopdeals.com have joined together to launch a new low- cost exhibition and conference initiative, which aims to bring together and promote companies that are active in the municipal vehicle & waste management sector.

Julian Glasspole, Managing Director, VWS said: “This is an exciting and dynamic initiative that will provide companies with an affordable way of meeting potential customers and networking with associated companies.”

March 13, 2014

Chesterfield-based engineering company, Vehicle Weighing Solutions Ltd (VWS), is working with the Sector Skills Council For Science, Engineering and Manufacturing Technologies (SEMTA) to recruit two level two intermediate apprentices to work at their installation workshops.

VWS are the UK market leader in vehicle weighing, and design, manufacture and install a wide range of load cells, on-board and bin weighing systems.  It is the first and only company in the UK to produce its own weights and measures approved bin-weighing system.

March 11, 2014

On 1 February 2013 Toby Perkins, Labour’s Member of Parliament for Chesterfield, attended the official opening of Vehicle Weighing Solutions installation workshops and factory in Chesterfield. 

Mr Perkins said: “It was an honour to be invited to official open Vehicle Weighing Solutions’ new factory in Chesterfield.