A New Brunswick man has a way to weigh vehicles while they drive over bridges to better understand the impact trucks are having on the province’s infrastructure.
Ethan MacLeod won a grand prize for his bridge weigh-in motion technology
Hannah Rudderham · CBC News
· Posted: Mar 29, 2026 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago
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Ethan Macleod’s company, Infralytix, recently won the grand prize at the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation’s Breakthru Startup Pitch Competition for his work with bridge weigh-in motion technology. (Naomi Peters/New Brunswick Innovation Foundation)
A New Brunswick man has a way to weigh vehicles while they drive over bridges to better understand the impact trucks are having on the province’s infrastructure.
“We turn, you know, full-scale highway bridges into giant bathroom scales, basically,” said Ethan MacLeod, who is from Saint John but now lives in Fredericton.
Macleod’s company, Infralytix, recently won the grand prize at the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation’s Breakthru Startup Pitch Competition, which included more than 140 entrepreneurs across 80 companies.
He was awarded $100,000 for his work with bridge weigh-in motion technology.
MacLeod said small sensors are placed on the underside of the bridge and,
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