Dodging scales

I don't even know where to start. I DON"T cross scales. Not because of how illegal I am but, the harassment alone. I will never believe in giving my little bit of money I have away. Scales have turned into POWER TRIPS. The image of a truck driver doesn't help. I feel their eyes crawling all over me and see their mouths water. An inspection can ALWAYS lead to a ticket. ALWAYS! The guys who declare they are 110 percent legal still can get a ticket at any given time for something. That's how the system is designed. I will take some heat for this post but, it's the truth. I don't need harassed. I don't need to hear about "how I should do it." Maybe not on this board but, there is a lot of people who feel like I do. I can tell you that I know ONE guy who prefers to 110 percent legal, and still can't do it. ONE guy! If you work for someone you can use those lame excuses. In my book, THERE IS NO EXCUSES. If you commit to the load, it's done. In the trucking industry, you do what you have to do. I take my risks. The system is not designed to be legal and make money. Some scales have the reputation of being ruthless, and they are. Why elect to go through that? If they want my money, they will have to earn it. Come get it, I'm not giving it to you.

 

No heat from me, that's for sure.

I instructed a student with the same set of sentences you stated. When he blew a scale because he was in the wrong lane..

They get paid to come get you. To hell with pulling over and ASKING for a #### ticket.

He was never stopped.

 

I was a local driver in a small, river town. During harvest season, portable scales were operated on Main Street looking for overloads of grain. I used the alleys parallel to Main Street because my small tractor had an even "smaller" licensed weight. At least, I did not look out of place in the alleys where the stores had their receiving doors.

 

I've never been stopped for that either........ I mean, that's what I've heard!

 

Oh I have ! I didn't get a ticket. But I think I would have rather had one.

And when I said never...I was refering to that one incident. Who knows, he may have lost his CDL a month later.

 

I think sombody already touched on this but a very common reason why people dodge certain scales is the scales reputation.

Certain scales are guaranteed to give you a ticket if your the lucky one to get pulled around back. (or I should say unlucky) They will find something no matter what to give you a ticket for.. They play the odds that the driver will just pay the ticket and not worry about going to court for petty fines..

So, in a lot of cases it has nothing to do with log books, overweight or being illegal in any way, simply just not wanting to risk taking the chance you are going to be the one who is pulled around back and given a $100-$200 ticket...

And I guarantee you that is the truth and almost every driver will tell you that does happen at certain scales....

 

That somebody like............ME!

 

Typical Bubba Big Rigger attitude......

 

I was leased to Refrigerated Transport, and got the red light. Over the loudspeaker, they told me to pull around back and an officer would come out there. The officer checked my paperwork and began looking under the rig, but he seemed rather casual about it. By this time, he knew that I was hauling plastic bags of sliced carrots or celery to Campbell Soup. I forget what it was. This was in 1975. Anyway, he was making small talk forever while I was anxious to get on my way and keep my delivery appointment. Finally, he asked if he could have a couple of samples from the load. I told him that the trailer was sealed, and I was not going to break the seal. After wasting a couple more minutes of my time, he let me go. I was teed off, or I would not have remembered it all of these years.