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Old Posted Jan 20, 2008, 10:40 AM
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Originally Posted by You Need A Thneed View Post
A Scale. To measure the weight of the soil they take out, I would assume. I don't know specifically why they would do that though.
Typically they are used to make sure the trucks aren't overloaded (the route to the site where they are taking the soil may have a weight restricted bridge, for instance). They have one up on the Stoney Trail @ Crowchild site as well that I've seen some of the larger trucks stopping on)
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