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Many businesses rely on scales in order to weight inventory and shipments. If you find that you need a short term or emergency scale replacement, or you have a seasonal need for more scales, you can rent a wide variety of different scales.

Scale Type #1: Crane Scale

When you have big or awkward items you need to weigh, a crane scale is a great option. The scale hangs directly on the crane hook and is designed to weight the load that is balanced on the crane hook. These are usually battery-operated scales, allowing them to be portable, which is necessary when attached to a crane.

Crane scales come in a variety of sizes, from small scales that are only capable of weighing a hundred or so pounds to large scales that you can use to weigh items that weigh tens of thousands of pounds.

Scale Type #2: Truck Scale

If you are shipping items on your own trucks, you need to make sure your trucks stay within the weight limit for their class and load size. Instead of heading to an official weight station every time you load up a truck, with your own truck scale, you can check your trucks and make sure they are the right weight before they get on the road.

This will allow you to avoid paying fines for overweight tracks and will provide you with more information about the weight of the trucks you are putting out on the road.

Scale Type #3: Floor Scales

Floor scales are great if you have uniform large items you need to measure, such as a pallet of goods. You can add ramps in order to make it easier to use carts to bring the goods onto the floor scale.

With floor scales, you can weigh loads that are thousands of pounds in weight. If you are having a busy season or time-period, you may want to rent on a floor scale so you can make sure you know the weight of all products before shipping them out.

Scale Type #4: Counting Scales

Counting scales are great when you have many small parts to weigh. Counting scales allow you to figure out exactly how many items you have all together and will allow you to make sure things are packaged correctly. Counting scales are designed to be extremely accurate.

For example, with a counting scale, you could measure a package of screws and determine, from the weight, if the package had 98 screws or 100 screws in the package.

If you have a seasonal need for extra scales, or you just need a temporary or emergency scale, you can rent a scale from a scale renting business like Carlson Scale. They will get the scale to your quickly and charge you an affordable monthly rental fee.