Passed a weight station

I blew by a rarely open Texas scale a few years back. Total accident. I was passing another truck & couldn't get over in time. Cops chased me down and were pretty cool about it. Did get a ticket though. Only $100 fine. Gotta love Texas! I've bypassed that cluster f#@k in banning on several occasions. I refuse to sit in a line of 50 trucks on the shoulder. The cops cant even see the interstatevfrom the coop. They do like to do scale runner enforcement there a lot though cause they know it goes on a lot. Wouldn't wanna get caught. I'm sure in Ca the fine is slightly higher than a hundred bucks

 

Hammer on dont worry about it

 

I blow by the Tyson's Corner scale on I-495 all the time,, never had any trouble,, BUT, have heard no good things coming from those that do go in,, bad inspections.

 

came down US70 to I10 heading east at night, signs to I10 confused me. went the direction the signs told me, lit up by the t/s. Came back through a couple days later going West, the same route, and didn't see it but it was closed that day. Tried finding it with Google Earth.....and like I said, still don't know where it's at.

 

About the 23. They look like office trailers. Big yellow signs everywhere. The Pilot is at the next exit. Like w900 said, How'd ya miss it?

$161 says you'll find it next time!

 

Its at the 23 mile marker. The westbound scale is never open. I found it right away with Google satellite view.

 

There wasn't a sign directing you off of 70 to proceed to the weigh station?

 

I went by that one S bound with oversize load. Was in Texline before I quit watching the mirrors. Guess they were asleep.

 

i saw the one in lordsburg. albeit a bit too late though.

i was in left lane and a truck in right lane. he went westbound and i went eastbound. so we were in seperate lanes.

i didn't get to see the sign pointing the way till after the truck passed it. the end of his trailer was about 5 feet from my front bumper.

i kept right on trucking. right down to the TS in the middle of nowhere, where i stopped to have the truck bumper lights fixed before nightfall kicked in.

looking at google maps though. i'm kinda curious as to how that scale works out though. cuz i'm going eastbound. but the map says i have to go westbound. through the scale. off at next exit. then back on to hit the eastbound scale so i can continue trucking eastbound.

seems just as much a stupid setup as that one in gallup. coming down the 491 where the sign says ALL trucks. so you actually head westbound 8 miles down the road to the first exit where none of you van boys will fit underneath the freeway so you can turnaround and head eastbound to the scale.

 

If that's the one I'm thinking about way off the beltway... everyone blows by that one.

There's another one like it on 151 outside Dubuque, IA. It's hardly open, but when it is, they expect you to exit and go to it. Out of sight, out of mind.

My first year, I blew by 3 of them not knowing. You just hold your hands up and they give you a dirty look. One of them I was in a fog bank. I popped out and there it was. Oops!

But you do hear many stories of drivers getting chased down. I guess I was lucky.

Eventually you learn where they are all at.