Seymour, Indiana Scale house

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, if I had to guess.

~Side Note~
"Kipp said the trend the federal government is following is "port of entry"
weigh stations with Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems built in."

"It's a more efficient use of our staff," Nichol said. "The state police
will be able to keep I-65 station open 24 hours a day and they will be able to
weigh and measure all trucks coming into state and check to make sure they're
paying their way."

Paying their way ...at least they don't beat around the bush

 

Then someone can explain to me why at least 3 of the Indiana super coops, I-70 east Terre Haute, I-70 west Richmond and both directions I-94 are open at most 6 hours a day, if that and never at night. At least by my experience, and my company is based in Indiana which causes me to pass those locations frequently.
I think Indiana, among other states gladly takes the Federal money to build these high tech facility, gets the construction jobs and whatever Federal money is doled out use and maintain the facilty and then promptly keeps it.
If you did in fact keep the facility open 24/7 reliably, expecting to catch and fine drivers and companies for various meaningful and useless violations, it would not take very long for the trucking companies and drivers to catch on and either fix the trucks/drivers or use another route. Pretty soon the violation $ do not pay for the manpower.
That is why the system that PA uses is much more effective, in cost and results. Setting up at rest areas at a random basis catches way more true violators.

 

The one eb on I-70 is a typical poor planning---simple fact of the matter---state of Indiana did an eminant domain deal to build it---trouble was most of the ramp in and about 1/2 acre of parking out back---is not only in Illinois--but the property is part of the farm out back---and they had no right to use it--Indiana--in order to not have to tear up the whole thing--amde a monetary deal w/the farm and state--and part of the deal was the hours of operation...much like the new(well not so new anymore)Jersey supercoop in Bloomsbury...course that ones much more political....but same basic premise...

 

Same thing in IL on I39. Farmer donated land for a rest area and state decided to put scale houses there. Thy got as far as getting the concrete laid and farmer won the lawsuit to have it stopped, still no scale house to this day.

 

Bingo, bango, bongo. That my friend is what it really all boils down to, doesn't it? It's about keeping that revenue stream via IFTA and mileage rate (like my state Oregon) contributions flowing into the state's coffers.

Entry point tagging provides a higher rate of return against the non-reporting cheaters.

 

its coming