At a warehouse, depot, or industrial facility, you weigh lorries (trucks) arriving with deliveries or departing with shipments — operating the truck scale, capturing weights, and generating tickets that drive billing and inventory.
In a scale-house overlooking the truck weighbridge, the day moves on the rhythm of arriving and departing vehicles — drivers pulling onto the scale, weights recorded gross-and-tare for net-cargo calculation, tickets printed for the driver and the receiving office. You're often the documentation hand between trucks and the inventory ledger. Tickets generated accurately and weighing-documentation completeness anchor the visible measures.
Where it gets demanding is the volume during shift-start and shift-end peaks — trucks cluster at certain times and the scale runs steadily during those windows. Variance across employers is real: at major industrial operations lorry weighers work within structured scale-house programs; at smaller operations the role combines weighing with broader gate-and-receiving work.
It fits people who are detail-precise, customer-warm with drivers, and steady through shift-pattern work. The trade-off is the standing-shift work and weather exposure typical of scale-house operations. Industry credentials anchor advancement.
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View all Admin & Office roles →At a warehouse, depot, or industrial facility, you weigh lorries (trucks) arriving with deliveries or departing with shipments — operating the truck scale, capturing weights, and generating tickets that drive billing and inventory.
Median pay for a Lorry Weigher is about $46K nationally, with the field ranging roughly from $35K to $60K depending on experience, employer, and metro (BLS).
Core skills for this role include Critical Thinking, Reading Comprehension, Speaking, Monitoring, and Service Orientation.
Most people in this role hold a high school diploma.
Employment in this field is projected to decline about 4.8% through 2034, with roughly 49,720 people working in it today (BLS).
Closely related roles include Inventory Control Specialist, Senior Inventory Control Specialist, and Inventory Specialist.
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