Why do you slow down approaching a scale?

And, for good measure...

4-ways and a few toots on the air horn.

 

I slow down a few miles from the scales, let all the high speed drivers go ahead and load up the scales and on the old scale houses they sometimes close them and I do not have to stop.

 

The ones that really bother me are those who enter the scales where it says MAINTAIN 45 MPH. And they go 20 mph the whole way through the bypass lane. Really? What does maintain mean?

 

I'm sure in some instances it is drivers: trying to get off a phone call particularly if they don't have a Bluetooth, putting away other items that shouldn't be utilized while driving, or their just new and confused as seems like almost every state runs their coops differently.

 

I am beginning to think that they must be driving slower in order to get threads made up on it.

 

Just like people that don't use their turn signal. You can tell many times someone is going to do something because they anticipate and think about it, and their attention to the moment at hand disintegrates. Kind of like talking on a cell phone and their brain waves get diverted.

I've done that many times at the Knoxville, TN scales. It works pretty good as twenty trucks pass you. Then you just wave thanks to them as you pass the full ramp.

 

I've done that many times at the Knoxville, TN scales. It works pretty good as twenty trucks pass you. Then you just wave thanks to them as you pass the full ramp. [/QUOTE]

Yes indeed, even running legal I still hate to get my rhythmic messed up setting on a old scale house.

 

Two reasons that have not been posted yet.

To not heat up the brakes. if your not stoping fast going into the scale, your not going to heat up the brakes as much. And if that scale happens to have thermal camera's its going to be harder for them to catch variations.

And secondly the halo effect. The ohh look at me, I drive 10 mph hours under the posted speed limit I never drive fast I am the most perfect person out here no need to pull me in to check my logs becouse you know I am just so perfect and it is all perfect.

 

Maybe that's why I've only been pulled into bay twice in 6 1/2 years. I'm going slow because I'm not hiding anything and trying to book out like everyone else. When I've been pulled in to bay it was a quick in and out nothing wrong. I don't go 10mph slower but I do a little under posted speed limit in scale. Also it helps the DoT officer time to put your Dot # in while your passing cause if he can't he wants to pull you in to check paperwork.

 

Yes and some of the guys like to redo their lipstick.