Ever blow by a Weigh Station when it was open?

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    The signs said open but I just couldn't be sure. Lol
     
    wore out, Feb 18, 2015
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    Turn around at the next exit and go back to weigh driver.
     
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    Just don't stop for that real deal.
     
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    Then I coulda had my own thread on TTR "Stuck at the West Memphis scale, 84200 what should I do" lol
     
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    Once you cross the bridge and got closer to the scales..they already knew how much you weighed..W I M...
     
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    They don't have WIM at those scales. If they did they would be camped out waiting to get all the cow trucks who blow by them.
     
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    I don't know..I've delt with a few of those scale guys..I think I got one fired..it seems that some of them are Walmart rejects..the job must not pay very well.
     
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    i never used to stop for those i 80 scales westbound south of chicago just west of harlem ave or the dickeyville wis. scale on us. 151 westbound going into iowa ...or the i 78 scale eastbound at bloomsbury nj after dark ....and after dark only stopped for the joslin ill scale on 80 westbound going in to iowa if the spirit moved me just right .
     
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    I run by the open scale house's that I know I can run.
    I bypass all the others.
     
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