Md Scales?

just through there last week never noticed a scale or anything of the such going north

 

how the would that hold up in court in motion could give a guesstimate but would not be accurate imagine having to tap breaks as you went over them do to something ahead all of a sudden your steers read higher than they really are(empty full of fuel I it at 11700 a small tap could easily send me over the 12000) to hold up I think they have to have a stationary weight. Most weigh in motion only give them a guess and if it appears over they pull you on the scales. 1 of the most common mistakes that gets those way under pulled in to weigh they braked to close to the in motion pads.

 

Yesterday I was on SR280 Alabama, East bound and there they were stopping all trucks. A van parked on the road side, and bear in his cave with the blue lights on, and the DOT guys with a portable scale, weighting every truck, axle by axle. SURPRISE!!!

 

Or when a four-wheeler cuts over 10 feet in front of your bumper at the last second. Happens to me everytime at the w-i-m in Louisiana and gets me pulled in for a stationary weigh.

 

Seen the one northbound, wasn't sure what it was exactly. Poles on each side of the road with multiple cameras, and current loops in the pavement in each lane. Between an exit ramp and the overpass.

 

And that was what 1/2 mile before the actual scales? out side Atlanta and many other places they have the WIM cameras and all around half mile before scales it takes a close as it can guess and as you go by they can see which trucks set it off and they pull them in for a better weigh. usually with a big led sign that says bypass or enter scales. You want weighed every time you go by there tap the breaks as you hit the current loops(or offset weight pads)

 

I haven't noticed it. If I had to take a guess at what it might be is something that flags the southbound scale that a truck is bypassing the scale. Since you can do that on that road.
MD has always been hard on trucks. Remember when they use to ticket through there if you was sitting on the side of the road sleeping. It was so bad that PA was putting up warning signs about it