CAT Scale Locator

Review by eFreeware

If you drive a truck for a living and your route depends on where you can weigh a load, CAT Scale Locator is built for you. It does one job: it shows you CAT Scale locations, starting with whichever one is nearest to where you are standing. Owner-operators, company drivers and anyone hauling freight that has to be scaled before it hits the road are the people most likely to get use out of it.

The app is free, carries no ads and has no in-app purchases, which matters when you are looking at a tool you might open several times a day. It has been on Google Play since February 2019 and sits at a 4.1 average from 241 ratings, with more than 100,000 installs. That is a modest but steady footprint for a single-purpose utility.

What the app actually does

The core of CAT Scale Locator is a location lookup. It reads your current GPS position and returns the CAT Scale sites closest to you, so the answer to "where is the nearest scale" arrives without you typing an address or hunting through a list of truck stops. The developer's summary puts the emphasis on exactly that: finding your nearest CAT Scale from anywhere on your Android device.

The second half of the idea is a custom search. Rather than relying only on where you happen to be, you can look up locations by your own criteria, which is useful when you are planning a run ahead of time or checking what is available near a delivery point you have not reached yet. Between the two modes, the app covers both the immediate question and the planning question.

Saving locations rounds out the basic feature set. Once you have found a scale you expect to use again, you can keep it for later instead of searching for it a second time. For drivers who run the same lanes week after week, that turns a lookup tool into something closer to a shortlist of regular stops.

The map view and recent updates

The most recent update, dated June 9, 2026, expanded the map so you can explore locations beyond the initial set of search results. In practice, that means the map is no longer just a picture of your first batch of hits; you can pan around and keep looking. For route planning, that is a meaningful change, because the nearest scale is not always the one you want.

The same update lists performance enhancements and stability improvements. Those are the kind of maintenance notes that tell you the app is still being worked on rather than left as-is, though the developer does not go into detail about what changed under the hood.

I would treat the map expansion as the headline here. A locator app lives or dies on whether it can answer the follow-up question, and letting you browse past the first results is the right direction for a tool used on the road.

What it needs, and the limits of its focus

The app is built around your GPS position for the nearest-location feature. The custom search exists precisely for the times when you want to look somewhere other than where you are, which is a sensible fallback for planning rather than an optional extra.

The scope is deliberately narrow. This is a CAT Scale locator, not a general truck stop directory, fuel planner or routing app. What it does is tell you where CAT Scale sites are and let you keep track of the ones you care about. If your work involves weighing loads at CAT Scale locations, that narrowness is the point; the app is not trying to be anything else.

Since it is free with no ads and no purchases, there is no cost question to weigh against that focus. The trade-off is simply that you are getting one specific lookup tool rather than a broader navigation suite.

A straightforward tool for drivers who scale loads

My read is that CAT Scale Locator is a sensible pick for anyone whose job involves CAT Scale locations. It answers a narrow question quickly, keeps a record of the sites you use, and does not ask for money or interrupt you with advertising. For a driver checking a scale before a run or planning the next day's stops, that is a reasonable combination.

The 4.1 rating from 241 reviewers suggests a generally satisfied but not universally delighted audience, which is about what I would expect from a utility that does one thing. The expanded map and the maintenance work in the latest update are encouraging signs that it is being kept current.

If you are a truck driver, owner-operator or fleet driver who regularly needs to find a CAT Scale, this is easy to justify installing. If you are looking for a full navigation or trip-planning app, its single focus will not carry you far.

What's new in version 7.1.3

Expanded map functionality to support exploration of additional locations beyond initial search results. Performance Enhancements Stability Improvements