Your prepass redlighted about the same time the trooper threw the switch to shut down the scale. Scales are for "commercial vehicles". Says nothing about "only big trucks pulling trailers". I'd go in bobtail, too - assumptions (and following advice from truckers who are wanna-be lawyers) get you fines in this business.
Bobtail is still a commercial vehicle. If signaled in by prepass or sign, you go in. They could be checking logs that day not gravity.
Actually as said earlier...if you aren't sure ...go thru the scales...unless you forgot to scale a 45,000 load...then just stop on the side of the road or make a u-turn or something.
NEVER make a u-turn. I'm hopin' Ham, you ment to imply to go to the nearest exit, and flip. the least i'd do, if i blew a scale, would be to pull over to the side of the road as soon as i knew i missed the scale enterance, and run inside with all my paperwork.....or get on the CB and let them know you missed the sign but would flip it back around and hit the scale going the opposite direction (if it was open) or do a double flip and head back thur the scale in 5-10 min......
lol....I'm sayin....if you didn't scale a heavy load...about the time you see that scale house open sign....you would be wishin there was a way to avoid running across that scale.....not that I have ever sweated any bullets over that situation.
I'm pretty sure that those who answered "bypass" have it wrong, including the OP. If they want you, they have you, so you'll just have to wait until the next time you happen upon a LA scale. I want to say it's spelled out in the Prepass brochure but I can't find mine, at the moment. Regardless, does "PREPASS FOLLOW IN CAB SIGNAL" sound familiar? My favorite scale story also happens to be a Swift story. I was EB on I 70 approaching the Limon, CO scale with a HAZMAT load. Prepass beeped stop, the sign said CLOSED and in I went, over the scale and straight inside to show my permit. While I was there, it occurred to me that the only trucks being called in were Swift but I was the only HAZMAT that I saw. When the guy was finished, I asked what was up. Turns out that a WB Swift had ignored his prepass and bypassed but thought better of it after he'd gone by. He went down one exit, turned around, came back the other way and ignored the EB scale, intent on turning around again to stop at the original. He must have reasoned there was no point in stopping at two scales! By now, they had him stopped somewhere in the middle and, by the time I left, they were no longer stopping Swifts.
Oregon does not use Prepass. They use Norpass. Every scale beeps my Prepass red, yet half of them are closed. I'm not wasting my time going into a closed sale. They can come on after me and I will fight it in court.
I always stop and so, we have a difference of opinion. To your credit, I'm guessing that if your weight receipt is current, you're probably right unless we're talking Ashland NB, Farewell Bend WB, Aurora SB or Hermiston EB; they all chase. My thinking is why worry? I'd rather stop and play on friendly terms than have someone chase me down for a shoulder stop. As far as a waste of time is concerned, if it came to that, I think I'd waste a lot less time by rolling over the scale than by trying to reorient my life to be in a courtroom in OR. To each his own, I reckon.
