Weigh Stations

if you don't have prepass..yes

if the light is blinking, saying all trucks enter weigh station..yes

a good way to go by is .."when in doubt, pull in and go thru it" ... if your legal then you have nothing to worry about and it doesn't waste alot of time doing so.

 

We have a problem in LA. Some of our drivers have gotten tickets for blowing the scale when they got a green light for prepass. Saying they did not follow the sign all trucks must enter. I have heard more than one say this happened to them. I was just down there last week and I went in when I got the bypass sign. Better safe than sorry and more money in my wallet.

 

I just went thru the greenwood scales 2 days ago, I got a gren light on prepass and got the must enter sign so I went in i then parked and went to ask the scale master about it and he told me that I should follow the prepass and not the highway sign, so after reading this post I still am not sure, has anyone ever called ldot?

 

I know that the last mav driver told me he got a $2.000 fine and was fighting the ticket. What they tell you and what they write you are 2 different things. I know it is a problem for us in LA. I pull into all of them. The other states I follow prepass.

 

What is prepass?

 

it's a box that is on the windshield that aloows truckers to go thru toll booths and bypass weigh stations. companies pay for this little tool.

 

Oh ok. I wasnt sure if it was the same thing.

 

no problem. my company pays cash at all toll roads which becomes expensive driving up here in PA. it costs me $77 one way from philly to the new stanton exit on 76.

 

PrePass doesn't pay tolls, it only allows you to by-pass a weigh station. E-Pass or Sun pass (it's what we have down here in Fl) is the electronic toll device.