Abstract: A device, particularly suited for weighing loads carried on pallets, featuring a low-profile, non-platform, U-shaped, shear-beam load cell scale adapted to receive a load moved by a pallet mover. The forks on the pallet mover can be lowered to the point where they are free of contact with the loaded pallet, so that the pallet mover is being supported by the floor in an opening defined by horizontally-extending legs of the U-shaped frame while the pallet and its load are supported by the legs of the U-shaped scale frame. This allows the weighing operation to be accomplished without moving the pallet mover away from the scale.