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Truck scale foundations

Truck scale foundations

Truck scale foundations

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Any experience with truck scale foundation design and weights and measures requirments.  I designed a truck scale with grain dump within an enclosed building.  Pit walls 9' tall and scale load cell piers 6' tall.  2' thick sidewall which support building columns covering the scale, and all sitting on 12" mat slab with T&B reinforcing and 8" approach slabs with #4 bars 12" o.c.e.w.

Weight and measures was not sent drawings for permit (my BAD!) All concrete is poured! However, I am being busted since piers are not monolithic with wall pour, (they are dowel on walls and slab #4 12" o.c.).  Columns cannot sit on pit walls, and I am suppose to have a 12" approach slab...

Any suggestions... Other than tear it out!

RE: Truck scale foundations

Different weights and measures departments are different to work with. If you are a PE or SE in that State and you submit a sealed letter certifying the integrity of the pit they may OK it.

The regs are there to allow for proper acess to the mechanism (for inspection, calibration, and repair) and to prevent shoddy design and workmanship. If your geometry is good then maybe you can sway them or get a variance for the engineering design particulars.

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