From the gatehouse to a priced ticket
Weigh in, weigh out, and the ticket is finished — net weight, product, customer, contract rate and surcharge all on it before the lorry is off the bridge.
| Product | PO Number | Gross Weight | Tare Weight | Net Weight | Price | Unit | Gross Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recycled 10mm Pipe Bedding | PO10042 | 19,400 | — | 19,400 kg | — | — | — |
| Limestone MOT | PO10042 | 27,920 | — | 27,920 kg | — | — | — |
Weighed in at 07:19. Until the exit weight is keyed the net is the gross — a large, entirely believable, entirely wrong number.
A ticket on the bridge, rebuilt here. It is sitting at weigh-in, where the net is still the gross. Watch the exit weight go on — or press it through again. Customers and registrations are invented; the weights, rates and totals all agree with each other.
A handwritten ticket costs more than the paper
A ticket book produces one copy of the truth, in handwriting, in a hut. It gets read back into a spreadsheet at the end of the day, priced from memory or from a rate card someone printed in March, and filed in a cabinet where nobody will find it when a customer disputes a weight in eleven months.
The direct cost is the re-keying. The larger cost is that nothing downstream can rely on it: invoicing waits for the transcription, the compliance record waits for the invoicing, and by the time anyone notices a load was booked to the wrong customer, it has been wrong in three places for a fortnight.
What the ticket carries
One record, read by three different parts of the platform. Nothing is entered twice.
The weights
Entry and exit, with the net worked out for you — from the difference, or from the vehicle's recorded tare where the load is not weighed off. Weights are held in kilograms and converted to tonnes in one place.
The money
Product, contract and customer resolve the rate as the ticket saves, per tonne or per load, with VAT held on the price. The ticket arrives atinvoicing already priced.
The classification
EWC code, disposal or recovery code, physical form, container type and number of containers. This is what makes the ticket filable todigital waste tracking without a second data entry.
The producer
Organisation, address, postcode, permit and SIC code, plus the origin district — the details the movement record needs and nobody wants to chase after the fact.
The exceptions
Site surcharges with a recorded reason, hazardous remarks, sampling against a job with its own number, and outbound waste and internal transfers between your own locations.
The vehicle
Held against the haulier, not typed fresh each visit, so a returning lorry pulls through its carrier registration and tare. Seefleet and hauliers.
What's in it
- Weighbridge jobs and waste transfer e-tickets, both running Saved → Closed → Invoiced
- Entry and exit weights with net calculated automatically, or worked from the vehicle’s recorded tare
- A separate hazardous queue, with consignment codes and hazard remarks held on the ticket
- Sampling recorded against a job, with its own number and screen
- Outbound waste and internal transfers between your own locations
- Site permits with an annual tonnage limit and the EWC codes each permit accepts
- Site surcharges applied to a ticket with a recorded reason
- Bulk close at the end of the day, or ticket by ticket at the bridge
- Every ticket priced as it is raised, per tonne or per load, and ready to invoice
Questions we get asked
What does weighbridge software actually replace?
The ticket book, and the evening spent reading it back into a spreadsheet. The weight, product, customer, contract rate and any surcharge go onto the ticket as it is raised, so the record that leaves the gatehouse is the record the invoice run and the filing run both read.
What is the difference between a job and an e-ticket?
A weighbridge job takes a gross and a tare and works the net from the difference. A waste transfer e-ticket takes an entry and an exit weight, and can pre-fill the exit from the vehicle’s recorded tare. Both run the same lifecycle — saved, closed, then invoiced — and both carry the compliance detail.
How are hazardous loads handled?
They have their own queue, separate from general jobs. Hazard codes, hazardous remarks and a waste consignment code are held on the ticket, and the consignment code is required and enforced on the EWC codes that need one.
Does it track site permits?
Yes. Each site holds its permits with a licence number, an annual tonnage figure and the list of products the permit accepts, so a load can be checked against what the site is actually allowed to take.
Can I close tickets in bulk?
Yes. An operator can close a ticket at the bridge, or the office can bulk-close at the end of the day ahead of an invoice run. Both are normal, and the platform does not treat closing as a compliance event for exactly that reason.
Can I run more than one site?
Yes. Sites, permits, surcharges and waste defaults are all held per site, users are scoped to the sites they work on, and reporting rolls up across all of them.