Why do truckers pass weigh station when open?

Do you need an account for that? My current company is to cheap to setup Pre-Pass.

It would be nice to not feel like I have to go in the Florida Agriculture Inspection Station when I just haul pallets of folded cardboard boxes.

 

Asleep at the wheel.

 

What weigh station was that ??? I only know of one actual weigh station in Pa, down on i95 I think before new jersey, if there is one open its usually when they convert one of the rest areas into a place to weigh trucks.....

 

One of the rest area / weigh stations on i80, I think near Ohio. The places they just set up mobile scales and only have that 1 little sign a hundred yards before the entrance.

 

I saw a truck run the scale house at Sage Junction on I-15 in Idaho yesterday afternoon... The DOT caught up to him just before exit 150.

It's one of those scales that you have to take an exit to get to it. They are currently in the process of installing the weigh in motion scales and Pre-Pass sensors. At that particular scale all empty trucks get to use the bypass lane... But there is no way for DOT to know if a truck is actually empty or not, as there currently is no scales before the weigh station or in the approach lanes... It simply the honor system. I know for a fact that loaded trucks go through the "Empty" lane on a regular basis. I think this was a big motivator for installing the weigh in motion scales.

 

I caught that too, I also understood what the writer meant. I am old enough to remember when Pa used that large inspection area on the turnpike near Harrisburg. I spent almost six hours in that dang thing once. In fact between that six hours and a break in a service plaza, I got a nice warning for excessive time at the toll plaza. Yes, at least at one time it could happen!

 

On this subject of "blowing past" a scale house. It is important to remember a lot of these scales (at least at one time) just have/had a weighmaster who IS NOT a certified Law Enforcement Officer! In fact, in some places, these weighmasters are NOT even DOT/CVSA/MCSAP certified Officers. They drive their POVs in and do their shift and leave. They can't come after you. All they can do is call for help. Many years ago I absently minded blew past a scale eastbound on I 20 coming out of Texas into Louisiana, I got a few miles down the road and a State Trooper pulled me over. He was a nice guy and accepted my explanation and after looking into my empty trailer let me go with a warning. So, just because you seem to be getting by with doing this, does NOT by any stretch of the imagination mean you might not have to do a 180 and go back. I have seen it done! Just a warning!

 

Dude u still in this area ?? Im north bound on i15 , getting loaded in cedar city right now

 

There's one on i80, east and west bound, at the 56mm.

 

No I'm in Nebraska now... I was in that area to get loaded yesterday afternoon. I just woke up a few mins ago and will be eastbound once again shortly.