REO Stone, a Rogers Group site, is a limestone quarry located outside of Nashville, TN. Operating over 40 years, this site serves customers throughout the area. Recently they decided to track and optimize their pit operations with the use of the LOADRITE Pit Boss solution.

REO Stone’s manager, Roger Allen, felt the site was under loading trucks and under utilizing their processing operations. Roger knew how much rock was going through processing, and with LOADRITE systems in the loading yard, he knew how much was going into the trucks and over the weighbridges, but the pit was the missing link in his information.

The need for this information was proving critical, with economic challenges pushing everyone to become more efficient. Roger Allen knew he needed to get information, and optimize his site to stay competitive.

Roger contacted his local Authorized LOADRITE Distributor, FTS Innovations, to help him improve his pit operations. Matching up the need for reporting from the onboard weighing system in the pit to the LOADRITE Pit Boss was the natural solution. It provided accurate weighing and reporting on every blast, every load, and every truck.

Once the Pit Boss system was in place, REO Stone was quickly able to improve their operations. “It allows you to put the maximum load on every truck, we were not doing that before” Roger Allen commented. “We were under loading our 60 ton trucks by as much as 20 tons before we had the Pit Boss.”

Pit Boss even helped outside of the pit, allowing them to maximize their crushing operations. Roger added “The system allows you to compare the loader scale in the pit to the belt scales to know your tonnage is right in your inventories.” This reporting has proven a reliable way to track rock, right from the pit.

Pit Boss is a proven solution to improve your pit productivity, and total operations with an accurate, reliable system that reports straight from the pit. Having a Pit Boss system installed by your Authorized LOADRITE Distributor is the natural choice to optimize your facilities in this economic climate. “Our distributor Wally is great, when you call him he comes out and provides good service,” Roger added.

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