Case Study: Lucas Total Contract Solutions achieves accurate tracking of contaminated fill and optimized truck tonnages with Trimble LOADRITE X2350

Lucas Total Contract Solutions - Customer Case Study

Lucas Total Contract Solutions was excavating a CBD site in Adelaide that generated large volumes of excess and some low‑level contaminated material. The client and the South Australian EPA required that the tonnage leaving site match weighbridge receipts at the Southern Waste Depot and be auditable, but there was no space for a site weighbridge, so Lucas needed a reliable way to track outgoing tonnages.

Trimble fitted a LOADRITE X2350 onboard scale to the site’s Hitachi ZX330 excavator to weigh each bucket payload and avoid density‑conversion errors. This allowed Lucas to match load printouts with disposal receipts, meet client and EPA audit requirements, and optimize truck loading. The system consistently delivered 2–3% accuracy (e.g., a month of ~6,000 t showed a 42 t difference; ~70,000 t over five months stayed within 3%, with one month at 0.8%).

Lucas Total Contract Solutions

Rick Walsh

Project Manager