Scales/Inspection Stations

Almost never.

 

You have to be really asking for it. If your vent is obscenely dirty from dripping oil or you have some other blatant cue you’re a slacker then maybe, but even then only during the daytime and only along major roads. Which is to again say almost never.

 

Here in pa dot is definitely on the 2 lanes looking at oilfield equipment. Back when it was really going hard around 2010 pa got grant money to go after oilfield specific equipment

 

Louisiana is all over it every day.
If you keep your stuff clean and not to lazy to throw a strap or a chain life is better.

 

Out here in the Permian Basin, the desert is considered ‘adverse conditions’, just have your paperwork in order, correct placards, equipment reasonably clean, you’ll be fine. Every time I’ve rolled thru the Penwell scale, the trooper quickly hopped on the step, asked how many gallons of fuel I had on board, told him/her then every time he/she replied ‘thank you very much have a pleasant day’.

 

I never dealt with them in the Bakken. I saw some poor saps pulled over for inspections, but they were in obviously OOS equipment or the gauge on the back of the water tanker was pegged to the max (obviously overweight).