Weighbridges are purpose-built machines dedicated to weighing large industrial vehicles and their contents, usually for commercial purposes. Whilst modern weighbridges feature advanced mechanics such as strain gauge load cells, their origins in the early 1900s saw the inclusion of more rudimentary technology.

Historically, weighbridges were originally designed to be installed over a pit that housed levers and other mechanical components. These allowed for the weighing platform to be connected to a balancing mechanism which was used to ascertain the vehicle’s weight.