Useless weigh station!

That driver shouldv'e been pulled. The trailer brakes needed adjusting or were close to catching on fire for any number of reasons.

 

It is possible that the inspector was in the restroom there. You never know, because you cannot see in them.

As far as fire. If the tires were on fire, calling 911 is the only thing to do. Your extinguisher would not be effective.

 

Coming in to Michigan the scales can be pulling You across, but much of the time, No one is even watching.

 

I was rolling out the Eastbound Banning scale and the scalehouse worker, got into her car, and drove off, while leaving the open sign on. I looked inside and nobody was to be found....

 

they do that #### here in tn. all the time.instead of putting the big word out,they make everybody slow down & pull in,but nobody's home.

 

One thing to think about.

Most of these weigh stations are computerized. They are still weighing the trucks. But when they are not in there, they also could be monitoring the weights of trucks for future reference.

Such as the number of trucks, weight and etc.

 

Banning east bound is wired into the west bound scale house also, if you run it or your seriously over weight they will have someone contact you. You'll recognize them they drive the nice black & white.

 

They may have virtual weighs as well. Where the officer can be out on patrol and get an image sent to his laptop of the overweight vehicle. There is 100 reasons that it could be. I know if I'm in the scale working and a bypasser rides by, I'll pursue the vehicle and leave another inspector in the coop to run the scale. I'll be back in a few minutes and continue on. And your right they are all computerized now. The computer keeps track of everything so they could be doing a sampling as well. Hard to tell.