DOT making car hauler unload at weigh station

Maybe checking VIN on cars, or maybe he was gonna hafta rearrange them for weight reasons...hard to say

 

The feds have been pushing the states to start enforcing length laws on high mount car haulers, because they don't meet the federal definition of an Auto Transporter.

The reason he had two off the bottom is that you have to unload both those to get the back one off the top, and I'm sure that the back top was hanging off just like the back bottom.

They can't make you unload part of your load to inspect your truck

 

He could also have just had a problem with the trailer and needed to make adjustments. Couple of years ago I saw an auto hauler off loading at a rest area because one of the hydraulic arms was leaking and the top was slowly leaking. Just because the guy was doing it in a weigh station doesn't mean DOT mandated it.

 

The upper decks are pinned in place. Nobody's going to unload cars in the inspection area and fix a leaking cylinder that ain't happenin.

 

Never having hualed cars before I will happily defer to you that the precise scenario I laid out is implausible. As to the more general idea - could the driver have identified a problem while going down the road that would necessitate the off loading?

 

it could have been an axle weight issues so they were shuffling cars around to get the right weight over the right axle