![]() “We were in the process of automating our scales, anyway, and I saw an article on SmartTruck in a trade publication,” he says. SmartTruck manages traffic through a combination of long-range RFID tags, outside message boards, electronic photo eyes, video surveillance camera, outdoor ticket printers, and a powerful computer system customized to the elevator’s specific needs, which interfaces to an AGRIS accounting system.ĭakota Plains is far from the first grain operation to make use of SmartTruck for traffic control, but Murtha comments that this system has some unique, custom-designed features that make SmartTruck the logical choice for automation of the grain receiving process. “Three of our lanes correspond to our three grain receiving pits and are for incoming commodities,” he says, “The fourth lane is for transfers from our satellite elevators or trucks delivering or picking up fertilizer.”Īll of that is under the control of SmartTruck automated truck weighing system purchased from CompuWeigh Corp., Cheshire, CT (20), and installed in 2011 as part of a larger storage and handling expansion project (see page 28). Operations Manager Kevin Murtha says the company utilizes a four-lane receiving traffic management system to help manage the 700+ trucks it receives each day during harvest. Being outside of town means there are no long harvest time truck lines blocking access to in-town homes and businesses. Photos by Ed Zdrojewski.ĭAKOTA PLAINS UTILIZES COMPUWEIGH SMARTTRUCK SYSTEM IN UNIQUE WAYSĪ little over a decade ago, when Dakota Plains Ag Center LLC built its rail terminal, the joint venture’s planners were savvy enough to locate the facility more than five miles from the nearest town of Parkston, SD. Through a CompuWeigh SmartChoice module at Dakota Plains Ag Center near Parkston, SD. Trucker is weighed on an inbound scale and awaits assignment to a receiving pit
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