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Discussion in 'Trucking Industry Regulations' started by TigerShark, Jul 10, 2018.

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  1. Jul 10, 2018 #1
    TigerShark

    TigerShark Medium Load Member

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    Few questions about weigh stations....

    1. If they are set out of eye site of highway do they really know if you run the port or not? IE Sundance Wy scale.

    2. When you go through a scale, generally they type in your DOT number but are they actually time stamping your truck or not?

    3. If your in the same state, are all the ports on the same system linked together?

    I ask these questions because I bought a permit in Cheyenne but the Sundance scale couldn’t pull it up they needed the hard copy in my binder....and coming back through I didn’t stop in Sundance and nothing happened...... so what do they actually know and what do they not actually know.....looking for solid facts.

    Thanks
     
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  3. Jul 10, 2018 #2
    ZVar

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    Basically yes to all questions. Here is the inside of a Florida scalehouse. I assume most states are similar.

     
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  4. Jul 10, 2018 #3
    kemosabi49

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    1. Idk. Probably. They may have cameras.
    2. Probably not, as there may be 10000 trucks on the road with the same dot number. Would have to enter your plate number. But many scales now do have license plate readers and I'm sure they timestamp every entry.
    3. Yes they usually are.
     
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  5. Jul 10, 2018 #4
    pmdriver

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    modern technology makes so faces can be recognized, plates just about your whole moves are being recorded and ran in algorithms which can catch slight variances. If you do everything by regulations you should have no worries, you the ol outlaw?, your days are growing short.
     
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  7. Jul 10, 2018 #5
    TigerShark

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    I might be one of the last couple thousand out here not running for 45 cents a mile. Did that already. The day they make me slap some computer on this cat is the day I stop driving. So yes my time might be short and lots of other guys but with mouths to feed, oil slow, and bills to pay bet your ### I’m looking for ways to keep moving.
     
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  8. Jul 10, 2018 #6
    baha

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    When you ck in at wy P O E. a lot of other states share info with each other like NE. can see the time you went thru wy ck every time,
     
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  9. Jul 10, 2018 #7
    Long FLD

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    Not sure about WY, but most states have all your info before you even pull off the ramp into the scale. WA has your plate, axle group spacings and weights, as well as gross weight by the time you hit the ramp. WA troopers have access to scale info in their cars as well.

    Most states in the NW share info between them. Got inspected in ID once and his print out also had my scale crossing from WA and UT on it.
     
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  10. Jul 10, 2018 #7
    K-D

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    Wa also knows if your drivers lic- med card- truck lic and tonnage are current befor you get to the pad.
     
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  11. Jul 11, 2018 #8
    TigerShark

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    Well yesterday I had WY scale ask where I was coming from and where I was going and I saw him type it into a screen and hit like a submit button I’m guessing into a database like you all are saying so I guess it’s true if they get the info put in its accessible to all
     
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    WA used to jump my case for not having Elogs .... The guy would be like " Why doesn't
    your company have logs !!! ... Co. i drive for caused him to have to work
     
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  13. Jul 11, 2018 #10
    Accidental Trucker

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    WA will also have a picture in the file of the driver. Catching team switches that way.
     
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