Knoxville coop open again.

I used to go around those scales pretty often hauling Bush Beans or water loads in a reefer trailer. That road by the Petro takes you around the scales.

 

i thought that road by the petro was off limits (big sign, i had to turn around)

 

I've sat on the curb in handcuffs behind that scale.... won't get into details but thank God the truck they were searching next to me had a sawed off 12 ga. in it.... they let me go pretty fast.

 

I've run US 11 also, but so many traffic lights, it took a while. Watts Rd., not supposed to run it but I did anyway, many times; gambled and didn't get caught. Kept everything legal running hazmat/tankers, but pushed the envelope running reefers.

There's another way also, that's a legal truck route, but has lots of traffic lights; going North on I-75 get off at the last exit before the 1-75/I-40 split, maybe it's Lenoir City exit. Then run 321 to 129 Northbound. Of course it's better to run by the book, but sometimes you're backed into a corner so you just do what you have to do.

 

Then again you could drive legal and not worry about it. Just a thought.

 

As I posted; it's a legal truck route. Watts Rd. isn't, but 321/129 is legal. A good driver has to use his own brain and not depend on some desk jockey to think for him.

 

If going to/from I-75- Chattanooga/Nashville, I always used hwy 27/62/61 through Oliver Springs. It's shorter and misses them. If staying on I-40 I got good at letting 20 trucks get in front of me to use the bypass when full. It's not hard to do. I do it even when I don't have to. Kind of a game for me.

That's the closest scales to me and I bet I've only weighed there three times there over the years.