Dampney’s Agri Environmental is
waste sewage contractor for Wessex
Water. To increase efficiency and
traceability, it has invested in a GPRS
data connection system to transfer
truck load data from an RDS
Loadmaster 8000i onboard weighing
system to its central office via internet.

After sewage has been dried,
Dampney’s distributes the solid
sludge ‘cake’ to farmers for use as a
cheap fertiliser. To enhance data
collection efficiency and to cut the
drivers’ need to return paperwork to
the main office, a GPRS data
connection system, supplied by CC
Software, transfers load data from
the weighing systems in the roll-on/
roll-off skips to the company’s office.

Skips are loaded at the treatment
plant and weighed as the container is
mounted on to the truck. Data is
sent through a modem under the
dashboard to the office via mobile
GPRS signal.Web access is only
needed at the office, so data can be
transferred from the cab in real time
to anywhere in the world where there
is a mobile signal. This costs about
£3/month per unit, dependent upon
frequency and amount of data.