Infrared cameras at scales in IL, MO, UT, NM, AZ, NE, IA, so on...

I remember a popular mustached DOT officer near Spokane, WA once warned me that I cannot show an average of 61 mph in Montana between Billings and their scale and the next time he would see me do that he would bust me bad mercilessly . Seeing that I was green and fresh he also told me that I'd better be perfect with my logs in Oregon as they can check when I pass their scales even if they're closed. Now 13 years later all this infrared equipment seems everywhere. Does anyone have any knowledge if these are accessible to the scales anywhere else? Can Iowa Highway Patrol reference that info? I am asking as I had an inspection in IA at an exit ramp and the men wanted me to show him everything including my food receipts and paper trail and he called the WY Port of Entry to ask what time I checked in. Well he was nice and all, he told me about his father's farm and Iowa agricultural economy, also told me that IL based trucks made him more suspicious than others. Based on that bias I fell a victim of his scrutiny. He was nice and courteous, so I don't want to talk bad about him even though he wasted about 1 hour of my log book time. Can't they just punch in my plate numbers and their system would show times of my passing in UT, MO, NE and so on?

 

I did not have any receipts other than fuel receipts or CAT scale receipts. It was a generic question. I did not have to worry about my logs. All loading/offloading and fuel times were perfect. I just don't get why they set up all those cameras everywhere and don't seem to have the capability to see when I passed them but still want to call number on receipts and rely on info some fuel desk clerk might offer. By the way, there is not any DOT requirement for me to have any receipts whatsoever. All I need to show is my log book, CDL, Medical Card and all other credential documents. I use Comdata so technically I can just fuel and go.

 

I logged it as I went, except I logged it better than it was, there wasn't any problem. Yes ELDs will disperse all these IA "I don't trust you" attitude situations, but what will they poor fellows do with all these nice white "Motor Vehicle Enforcement" SUVs?

 

That's it! Thank you sir!!!! That's exactly the info I was looking for. Holly cow! You happened to see the Shamrock scale open. Never happened to me. I even thought that place was all abandoned and dilapidated to the point of no use. Sorry to hear about you getting caught.

 

So it means, that the times of entry in AZ, NM also exiting NM (past San Jon) then we have all modern scale in OK, MO.... must be perfect. Might as well do it on ELDs...well almost. One might consider taking US 54 but that slows you down considerably.