Skipping scales

Fun fun, I do have PrePass and its nice always get green lighted there.

 

Yes, you can go around them. And I would suggest doing it every time. This I know having a perfectly clean record, and knowing the roads. Learn the roads, use your cb. Download truckers path. Run at night, and pay attention to times and areas that the DOT works over truckers.
These people make the law's, enforce the law's and have never driven a truck in there life, let alone try and make a living out of it.

 

I'm curious myself... $4.99 a month isn't to bad

 

Truckers path is free, and it works!

 

I actually have that App and forgot all about it...

 

Have took the "scenic route" around scales when I had loads that were borderline and no Cat scale before the weigh station.Have also been stopped and asked "What are you doing?" Answer in a calm manner"Driving down a state highway ,sir". This went back and forth.You CAN'T pick my driving route for me.However,they can and Will subject you to a Level 1 to 3 inspection. Once,while in a scale house they were "monitoring the cb" and heard a driver asking how to go around the scale and "took off" to try to locate him.So,its up to you if you want to "dodge the scales or go out of your way to Cat scale ,replace your lights and do it right. JMO

 

People are touchy tonight.. On the subject of DOT, Seen a awesome ad. It had a DOT officer giving a ticket for to "much" chrome. It made me chuckle.

Back to our reg scheduled programing.

 

I always chuckled at that , too.

The HP always sets that up before an exit that almost no one has any business exiting at , and they wait at the top for all the knuckleheads to panic at the sight of the sign and make a knee jerk reaction and peel off that exit... right into the waiting hands of Johnny Law .

Talk about self incrimination!

 

On an parallel subject.... any driver worth his salt needs to be able to wiggle through the trees when the crap hits the fan.

Just tonight I avoided multiple road closure backups (i95 SC) and construction snafus by rerouting myself through the bushes.

I saw TWO other trucks in that 60 mile stretch of two lane black top... all of the others chose to sit in the madness.

NOT ME. I ain't skeert to knock down a pine bough.