Anyone ever had trouble with I 65 NB SCALE at AL/TN S.L. in TN?

A few cans of gloss tremclad spray paint from walmart and she look good as new and no time at very little cost, add some painter tape to the mix for graphics and peel it off and sha-zam. New improved look.

If she looks glossy and shines, they look less at you.

 

I have an old truck to, so I get what you are saying, but I also get what he is saying. For every one of us that keeps our old trucks in good shape, there is a hundred that aren't fit for the junk yard. As for the safety score, it isn't about your personal csa score, it's the company wide one. That's what he sees when you pull on his scale. Obviously this doesn't apply if you have your own authority, but that opens up a whole other cab if worms. Just look at how many threads we get here about guys that have almost zero experience in the industry, finance a fifty thousand for a truck and get their authority and start pulling cheap freight if the public load boards. How well do you think they are maintaining their truck and trailer?

As far a cosmetics, that's the very first thing an officer sees. It's a lot more important than you think. First impressions and all. I'm not saying you gotta drop ten grand at the truck stop. But fix the basics and keep it clean. Use the fifty foot rule, does the truck lik decent standing fifty feet from it? Using your rusty frame as an example, a three dollar wire brush, two cans of 2 dollar black paint, and a Saturday after noon would fix that. So to you, it's just a bit if rust. To him it says you can't be bothered to spend a few hours and twenty bucks on your truck. Faded paint is more expensive, but boils down to the same thing. Three hundred in paint and a weekend with a spray gun will do wonders. Again doesn't need to be show room quality. But needs to look like you care. Ever since I started putting more effort about how my truck looked, my dot encounters went from every few months to once every couple of years.

 

Sounds like an ordinary day at any Georgia scale. The only time I get green on the prepass is when they're closed. There's nothing you can do but go around when a scale (or entire state) decides to flip it to "all trucks in" just to be dicks. Now that the same guy pulled you in twice like that, maybe he'll recognize you a while and give you the bypass lane.

You can run a prepass report to see what your pull-in percentage target is. My carrier record is not quite as clean as yours and it's at 5%. Yours ought to be 5% too with your record. If your CSA score starts to climb, prepass will automatically scale up your pull in percentage. If I recall, it takes a good bit before prepass goes up, but when it starts going up it ramps up relatively fast.

 

I have had my authority for a year and a half now. I've been pulled into scales a lot of times but no inspections. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? I've been surprised as it is a new authority with no safety record or inspections..

 

Is there an actual and reasonable bypass route for this particular scale? [I-65N Tennessee coming from Alabama]

 

Another thing is youre running paper logs right? They just love inspecting older trucks with paper logs.
My last inspection I was in Canada and officer asks for my logs, I tell him Im on elog and he says "oh I wont even check it then" Checked my license and cab card and let me go on my way.

 

Only bypass route is Exit 1(US31N) to Pulaski, then US64E back to I-65. Roughly 14 miles extra.

 

Driver that's about 13 miles farther than you need to drive to bypass those scales. The quickest way is exit 1 US 31N then take a right turn on TN 273 just north of Elkton, TN. There's no sign for TN 273 but it takes you right back to the big road.

 

I've been told by other bull haulers not to use that US 31 deal to bypass the coop. Heard they got cameras on it and will run you down.

Theirs a couple other ways that are bulletproof, but they are a bit of a PIA and I don't share my tricks of the trade on public forums .

 

I've only been inspected in canada (Which seems weird since I'm in the US 80%+ of the time.) . 3 times Ontario and once in MB at the ontario border. They've checked my Elogs 3 of those 4 times. One guy went though every menu trying to find something.