Weights and Measures

 Weights and measures. No I’m not talking about obesity or your waistline, I’m talking about seeing to it that you get what you pay for. I’m David Sparks and I’ll be right back. You go to the gas pump and you put in 10 gallons…did you actually get 10 gallons? What about a pound of brocolli or an eight ounce steak. Get what you paid for? According to the Idaho State Department of Agricultures Kevin Merritt some times you do and sometimes you don’t: “Daily we run across devices that will fail the inspection and half of those failures of the device are giving away to the consumer just as much as they are shorting the customer.”

 Today, quantities are determined in all business sectors using the latest advancements in technology. Gasoline stations and supermarkets employ state-of-the-art weighing and measuring equipment. Railway cars and highway vehicles are weighed “in-motion.” Coal is weighed while moving rapidly across belt-conveyor scales. Motor fuel quality, another function for weights and measures, also is a rapidly advancing science. Weights and Measures is in the ISDA.