From staff reports Dolese Bros. has a new “scale house” at the company’s Richards Spur quarry north of Lawton.
“Primarily, the scale house is the location where we weigh and ticket trucks for the material they pick up,” said Kermit Frank, Dolese’s vice president of communications. Trucks are first
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“Great care is taken to load trucks within the legal limits for the type of truck hauling the product,” he said. On any given day “the scale clerk will do ticketing for several hundred truck loads.”
The new scale house replaces a building that
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The new building was constructed with insulated concrete forms (ICF), a relatively new Dolese product offering. The airtight, energy-efficient ICF construction helps keep the interior warm in winter and cool in summer and provides a barrier against quarry noise and dust – “offering a more comfortable environment for our employees who work there,” Harris said.
It also has larger windows to let in natural light and a climate-controlled data room for electronic equipment. In addition, “The design team angled the two north corner walls to give scale clerks a better line of sight while trucks are parked on the scales,” Harris said.
The scale house’s new check-in and check-out lanes and readers also support a more efficient, streamlined process for trucks entering and leaving the plant.
Most of the material and structural elements used in construction of the scale house are Dolese products:
• Stone, chips and sand from Richards Spur.
• Concrete from the mobile batch plant at Richards Spur.
• Natural sand from the Dover sand plant.
• Logix ICFs, Arbuckle silver bricks, and rebar from the company’s block plant.
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