Florida Scales my problem

The company I drove for at the time was XXXXX Trucking, Inc.


The XXXXX name was in Big letters and easily read on the side of the trailers. It was not a Swift or JB or Schneider. The XXXXX is for the 5 letters of the name.

 

Not so sure about that. I got redlighted alot more with Werner, then I did with TA. I think the company you drive for may be a contributing factor. At least in OH.

 

the speed limit thru the ky. scales is 10 mph, they run your dot number when you go thru & check to see if your kyu number is good & whether or not your company is on the inspection list.

 

The next time you cross a scale stop and go in! NO kidding go in and TALK to these guys who you think "are doing nothing". They actually enjoy showing their new toys off and explaining how they work so we understand their jobs better! Just like back in Jr High on a field trip!

I finally got to go into a set in WA about a month ago after a 6 month dry spell of not getting pulled in! I get paid to pass a DOT L1-3 so I really do like to get stopped! Anyway I'll start from scratch on my times in the new and improved scales and I'll start with the Pasco,WA scales on I82WB.

When I walked in the first thing I see is a TV monitor with My TRUCKS picture and 4 others on it, and yes you can see the name and numbers on it! Also there is the speed I was going when I crossed the drive over section on the main road NOT in the scale ramp! Then I can see how long my truck is DOWN TO THE INCH! No kidding it said 73' 10" inches and I actually measured it when I stopped that night and it was exact! I got a L-3 inspection and passed and I asked him why I was pulled in with a 27000# load and he pointed at the screen and said see the red for your company name? The answer from me is yes. Well the computer reads your tag and your company or MC/DOT# and if there is anything it doesn't like it brings you in! Now I'm no "been under the rock trucker" as I've had computers in my truck for almost 10 years and I try to follow all the new teckie stuff but I asked him if the recognition software is that good and he said watch this and he took it out of standby and sure enough it read several trucks before an overweight USXpress rolled over it and brought it in all by it's lonesome! I was truly impressed and i asked him if the Pre Pass had anything to do with it and he said no as you didn't have it!

Now for those of you who don't understand about the being pulled onto the static when MT or light. GA,FL,TN,MO and more do an audit. They set the counter for every truck, or 1 in 5, 4 in 10 ect. They scale all the axles or groups just to audit what is running on the road at that time and it's even set by the state so they can figure how many MT's loaded ect are running at any given time! You know all that useless information someone somewhere needs to spent yours and my tax dollars on! ROFL!

A story: I was WB on I44 in MO and got to the Sullivan scales and got pulled in. I did the little roll across the scale bit until my trailer tandems got on but he actually came on the speaker and CB and told me to stop my FRONT axle on first then roll across and set the REAR axle on and then pulled me in for an inspection. I go in and he tells me I'm overweight on my rear axle on the trailer and I stood there like a deer caught in the headlights! "WHAT"? I blurted out. and he kinda laughs and points at a monitor and says that the roll across at the PrePass overhead says that you are x pounds on one axle and x on the other (I can't for the life of me remember what the true weights were) and sure enough they jived with my static scale weights thus the reason why I rolled across with the drives but he stopped me at the trailer.
The problem was the trailer I picked up, the driver had dropped it in the door on one of those docks where you drop down into the hole. This air ride trailer was the type that has those arms that drop down onto the axle to keep it from droping when the air bleeds out when the fork lifts run in and out, and sometimes when dropped and the air is removed, the silly things when air is reapplied will sometime NOT pop back up and you will have the front axle almost off the ground so all the weight is on the rear axle! I learned an expensive lesson that night as I paid the over weight axle ticket, and a service call of $250 for the guy just down the service road to come out and jack the rear of the trailer up and let the axle drop so the arms would release! Easiest money he made that night!

Now when ever I back into a hole I slide the tandems to the back and I also check the darn things just to be sure!

Hope this shed a little more light on the scale deal

 

Just watched a show that had some of the new stuff. 1 was the camera that reads the plates. It finds, isolates,and reads the plate at 30+ mph. There is and infrared detector for brakes, no heat ='s no brakes.

 

They can also check for cracked wheels. There were three of us that are o/o for the same company that were going to Miami. We all had wide loads so had to show permits anyway. I was the 3rd truck. The man came out of the scalehouse checked permits for our 1st truck and waved him through then the 2d one pulled up he checked his permit and told him to go park it because he had a cracked wheel on his trailer and it had to be fixed before he could leave. No paperwork and the guy was pretty cool about it. Once it was fixed they let him continue on. The officer never walked back to look at the wheel.

 

This is like asking a deer to appreciate the craftmanship of a new rifle...