J-Scales becoming CAT scales

The 2 I use Mac Valley Oil amd Silvas in Oxnard. Both have seal stickers on the scale head. My understanding is that they have to be state certified to give use a certified weight. If you don't care or don't ask there are several around that give out weight tickets that are not certified. The keys is "Certified Weight" any thing else is not legal for point of scale. All the Bulk Mills we deal with are Certified by the state they are located in.

 

McValley Oil is such a dump. I got hung up from the first pump there because a truck parked next to the scale and walked over to the Subway. I had to wait until he came back because trucks pulled in behind me.

 

I think the seals in CA have to do with the California Weighmaster certificates that are used for trade. All the CAT scale tickets i get in CA say "THIS IS NOT A CALIFORNIA WEIGHMASTERS CERTIFICATE AND IS NOT LEGAL FOR TRADE IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA".

The following is pure speculation though.

 

MacValley Oil is a total clusterf**k. I couldn't make heads or tails of it the first time I tried to hit the scale over there and with their business hours, they are open too late and closed too early.

 

Fuel and scale there all the time, never have a problem. It always clean, no rif-raf hanging out, they supply free truck parking. Scale is accurate and certified for trade. This place is always very clean, the employee's are alway polite, the food at subway is very fresh, inside is clean.... Exactly what makes it a dump. No hookers, no bums, no trash, fuel is always good and has been for years. They are open at 5am (by 5:30am I'm out of Oxnard) don't know about closing thought they were 24 hours. Maybe you should try Silvas, they open at 8:00am and close at 4:30.

 

I haven't used a J scale since getting an overweight ticket in VA...I scaled the load on a J scale, and somehow gained 2,000 lbs. on my way to Virginia.

 

I'm in Oxnard every week also. I'm at the BMW VPC on Hueneme RD. I take Las Posas Rd from the 101 down into Port Hueneme.

we must be talking about 2 different things. If you are referring to the Shell gas station next door you are correct. The T/S is a dump. They are notorious for gross bathrooms. The porno books next to the soda cooler just gives off the aroma of a DIVE. The old fat , balding guy with the ZZ Top beard looks down on everyone. Parking? You must mean the 5 spots behind the gas station, because I don't see any room anywhere near the pumps.

 

The Mac Valley Oil store is good, the gas station next door with the subway is good as well, however, one of the times I was there standing in line to buy a case of manzanita sol apple pop (only place I've seen it) the younger heavyset male cashier with metal in his face was more concerned to be talking aloud with the customer in front of me about how he was able to get percocets, vicodin, or basically anything else illegal as hell in 5 minutes. VERY PROFESSIONAL.

 

I did not call it a dump but I did call it a clusterf**k. They opened up around 8 and was closed by late afternoon but mabye that was weekend hours. There was no more truck parking availabe than a 7-11 and hardly enough room to get out of the way. I had to park over in the dirt near the entrance and walk through the lot just to find out what line was the scale line and there must have been 20 trucks in there the first time I went in. If I had the option of going elsewhere I would have but I went where I was told to go.