Weigh station questions

Not being a buster, okay?

READ the signs. If anything your trainer should have done was instruct you on the signs. He didn’t do it. He failed.

If it is a Prepass site, there will be a sign saying so. If the scale is open and your prepass doesn’t go green, you go in. If they have a sign telling you to bypass the scale, yet your prepass blinks red, go into the scale. Prepass trumps the electronic messages. OPEN and CLOSED sign trumps all.

All the scales have a posted speed limit sign.

 

This happens to me pretty regularly. That's why it's always important for new guys to have a trucker GPS that will inform you when weigh stations are approaching and to look for the physical sign indicator whether it's open or not. If open and no prepass signal, go in.

But you also need to be aware they can sometimes be Closed but you get a Red signal on prepass. Point is to try and keep yourself in a position to see what the sign says.

But be advised. I can tell you Garmin's aren't 100% accurate about all scales locations. I'm not sure about Rand McNally.

 

Depends on what kind of day you want, if no signal on prepass act like you were called in and do the rodeo, if you have a box they can not see into if empty and there is no scale on bypass lane hit the scale and if you are doing the bypass lane they have a posted speed limit, go a little bit slower and look hard everywhere, people are walking around. If you try to get around those in that coop and they catch you they can make your day very bad, if you play the game nicely you back on the road in a few minutes.

 

some of them scales are that little plate in the road before you even hit the weigh station, like in Nebraska, they get a close idea of your weight before you even are flagged into the station. Some states will use a loud speaker to guide you so have the window down a bit and listen. It is pretty much just get in line, do not do anything to get noticed, then get on out.

 

HazMat you go in, green or not.. most times you will get the bypass lane..

 

Actually that's incorrect. Each state that accepts Prepass, has it's own laws regarding this.