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Truck driver miffed over 5-day 'detention' at weigh station

Discussion in 'Truckers News' started by Cybergal, Mar 21, 2008.

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  1. Mar 21, 2008 #1
    Cybergal

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    Five-day delay angers truck driver
    3/21/08
    Columbus Telegram, NE
     
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  3. Mar 21, 2008 #2
    Drive-a-Mack

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    ..here's another article about the truck driver delayed in NE, got a chuckle out of it because for one thing i know this weigh station, its on Hwy 6 just off I-80, runs from Lincoln to Gretna interchange, 20 some miles i think. If he had Federal authority waiving state laws why was on this stretch of hiway when I-80 runs parallel, has an easy access weigh station, and has wider lanes than that stretch of hiway he was on? For one thing this weigh station is rarely open; it was bad luck for him they were open at the time he was on it, why they held him for 5 days though I don't know.. If he was headed east on I-80 cant think of any reason for him to be on that stretch of hiway but I'm just curious to know why he was?

    http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2008/03/21/news/local/doc47e2ead7f261a565313909.txt#blogcomments
     
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  4. Mar 22, 2008 #3
    Brickman

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    Re-read the article. He was not on 6, but 80. Also look at the pic. Thats the 80 scale.

    The reason they wouldn't allow him to go on was that he was 6000 lbs over the permit.


    I would be "miffed" too sitting for 5 days.

    NE DOT thinks they are god. I had the jack legged thugs stop me one night after I had gone past their weigh in motion scales. Their sign said "weight checked, do not exit". I rolled and a few minutes later the losers were giving me a ticket for running the scale. Its a racket they are running. Less than $100 ticket and they know an out of state trucker isn't likely to fight a ticket that low.
     
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  5. Mar 22, 2008 #4
    Truckerjo

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    I personally never had it happen to me but I have heard they do that.. I also heard much about how petty they are in the scale house as well..
    Unfortunately a lot of scales are getting that way...
     
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  7. Mar 22, 2008 #5
    Roadmedic

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    We all know it is all about safety. There is no revenue chasing going on here.:biggrin_25523:
     
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  8. Mar 22, 2008 #6
    Brickman

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    Its ALL about the revenue.
     
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    bamanation Thanks this.
  9. Mar 22, 2008 #7
    hondadrv24

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    The North Platte scale must have been closed when he passed by there, or there was a special super trooper in the Waverly scale that day.

    Never had a problem with either scale, go past all the time
     
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  10. Mar 22, 2008 #8
    Redwolf

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    If they knew what was in that cylinder, they'd let him out of there so fast his head would spin.
     
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  11. Mar 24, 2008 #9
    bob wood

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    im surprised somebody from the feds didn't show up, and kick their butts!
     
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  12. Mar 24, 2008 #10
    Brickman

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    I thought of that too. Apparently the cargo wasn't all that top secret after all.


    I've heard stories of real top secret freight being hauled where a fed agent is running the front door and stops at the chicken house. Flashes his badge and says when you see a truck roll by here without stopping you act like you didn't see a thing. This is top secret gooberment stuff that is far above your pay grade.

    I don't know at what level gooberment freight gets an escort, marked or unmarked but I do know some of it does.
     
    Brickman, Mar 24, 2008
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