wide loads and cali scales

Discussion in 'Flatbed Trucking Forum' started by snowwy, Jul 17, 2013.

  1. snowwy

    snowwy Road Train Member

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    i know your supposed to stop at every open scale when hauling wide. and naturally you wouldn't stop at a closed scale.

    but in cali. they're open and when the parking lot is full they close. untill a spot opens then they're open again.

    so, do you still stop if the closed is up?

    this is my first rodeo with a wide load. (done long and heavy, never wide) and my first permit load in cali.
     
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  3. Flatbedn

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    If it is closed I always just zipped by. Last thing they want is an o/d load sitting parked waiting to enter.
     
  4. snowwy

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    that would make sense. but i've seen em closed sometimes when the ramp is empty. but the parking lot is full. i'm guessing for inspections.
     
  5. Flatbedn

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    Yea if they are closed you just go by as normal. I pulled a lot of o/d in and out of Cali. If sign said open I went in if closed for whatever reason I went on by.
     
    snowwy Thanks this.
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  7. Allow Me.

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    :bootyshake:"closed"-------go. "Open"------stop.
     
  8. snowwy

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    i don't trust cali. and i'm certainly not about to donate to there bankruptcy.

    i've noticed they once had 2 permit offices. north and south. to which they consolidated into one north office.

    and now they have clean truck centers.
     
  9. WheelMan55

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    Yup if its closed hammer down I've been 13' wide in cali the sign said open when I passed it but Than turned to Closed right before my escort passed the sign he said on the CB closed hammer down and no one chased my ### down for it ..... a lot of times in Cali if I see the ramp start to back up ill kind of slow down a bit to see if the sign will change to keep me from going into the scale
     
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