Banning Scales

West bound the last time I was behind a big pack of trucks, so when I got there the ramp was full and i went past it.

 

i see you never got a taste of them. i got a over lenght ticket on the east bound side. took me 6 weeks to pay it.

 

Every week.

 

Depends totally on circumstances what happens. It has been a few years since I was through Banning, but I remember the scales being right next to I-10 and the road clearly visible. Most weighmasters in these scales are sitting high. If a weighmaster is writing an overweight citation or otherwise busy you are in luck. Because that scale (at least at one time had) has prepass I doubt the inspectors outworking will bother with you. Completely and totally a luck of the draw.

 

$260 something

 

Doesn’t the westbound banning scale have a sign that says “bypass scales when full to this point”...or something to that effect? Another driver told me ‘the scales are always full as far as I’m concerned’ lol.

 

I have never seen that post on there. It’s either Open or Closed all those years that I’ve been trucking (1979).

 

I’m almost sure it does. I know I’ve seen it, but been greenlighted through there for the past year. But it’s a white sign, like speed limit sign size, and it was sitting there about 20 trucks deep, leaving space for 5 or 6 more trucks on the ramp before they would be out in the travel lane.

Somebody go by there and snap a pic of it and confirm my suspicions!

*please have bikini clad lady holding said sign.