prepass for weigh stations trackable or no?

Every time you pass a weigh station that uses it it creates a time stamp in the prepass system. I'm sure that info is available to DOT if requested.

 

Yup, yup. It's all computerized time stamped and truck id.

 

It can be subpoenaed by a court in a criminal or civil case, or both just like every other record like cell phones, credit cards, fuel cards, loyalty cards etc.. It is not available to DOT officers otherwise.

 

I thought I read somewhere that some Westerns states, like Wyoming, Utah?....can't remember where. Heck, can't remember what I read it out of....maybe Landline? But it said they were working together to check logs by seeing what time the truck went through their prepass or scales. They were sharing the information amongst states, so as to catch drivers not being honest on logs.

Again, I can't remember where I read this but it was a few months ago. Of course, it could all be baloney. I dunno.

 

Another small tidbit,if you are running the pacific northwest, word has it that each time you cross the scales a photo is taken of you license plate and a time stamp, then the next scale you cross, this information is cross referenced to see if you are running within the alotted time they feel is a legal trip, ie: did you take your ten hours before you crossed another scale 11.5 hours away. Just something to keep in mind.

 

So they will stop you just to see if you have a co-driver in the bunk?

 

It looks like that is what it is leading to, I read this on Landline some time ago, my thought is if they are doing this there, it will soon be nation wide.

 

quite possibly. the orweillian state is not far off

 

It is looking that way, I went on line and got my drivers license record from the BMV the other day, (Indiana), and it had all my speeding tickets from back in the early seventies, with a disclaimer saying that they only keep supporting documentation for the previous ten years. I also went to the FMCSA website and got my PSP report, it goes back three years, whereas a motor carrier report only goes back two years, and in addition to that, any warning tickets that you receive are listed on the PSP report, with no distinction as being a warning ticket, they are counted as violations. It appears that the drivers are being set up to take the fall for everything, you better start saying NO, I can't run that with a clearance light out, or what ever the problem maybe.