Axtec helps Balfour Beaty boost safety01 November 2010

Balfour Beatty has decided to install Axtec on-board weighing systems as a standard on all its new 3.5-tonne vehicles.

The news follows trials earlier this year, and should see the technology fitted to hundreds of vehicles, as they are replaced and upgraded.

The decision to fit the Axtec system fits in with Balfour Beatty's 'Zero Harm' health and safety initiative, which will also see the company using reversing cameras.

With some units recently fitted, Balfour Beatty has become the first major user of the Axtec system with an integrated reversing camera. All new systems will have the recently introduced wide screen TFT display.

Axtec has trained Balfour Beatty staff in how to fit and calibrate the system, meaning cost savings and a more efficient workload for technicians in the workshop.

"With the emphasis that Balfour Beatty places on health and safety, the Axtec On-Board with reversing camera option is going to prove an invaluable piece of kit," reckons Mike Brown, fleet services director, Balfour Beatty Plant & Fleet Services.

"It will help protect people working or moving around behind reversing vehicles, as well as helping to avoid the risk of overload, which has both safety, legal and potential O-licence implications."

Author
Brian Tinham

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