Need Advice

It looks like your gut is trying to tell you something.

 

Bypass the station.

 

The cops in weigh stations have seen this little trick before. About a zillion times. I wouldn't try it.

 

I read somewhere, if the truck has a DOT #, you must stop at a scale. If your box truck doesn't have one, I don't think you need to stop. I know all Penske and Uhaul trucks have DOT#s. I suppose you could go around the scale, straight trucks aren't under the scrutiny a TT is, but always risky business. If you get a Penske truck, and not grossly overloaded, I'd just run over the scale.
Does a box truck have to stop at a weight station? - Quora

 

Been through this, First, you need to log.

Second, you better have a medical, I was told here you are driving a commercial vehicle for hire, it is now required.

It depends on the state, some states don't require you to scale while some do.

If your cheap company has to try to skirt the laws by trying to rent a truck, then they are setting you up. As REO said, they know the tricks.

I want you to know that overall, don't sweat it.

 

Different states have different rules for 6-wheelers at their weigh stations. Read the state page in the Rand-McNally Motor Carrier Road Atlas and read the sign at the weigh station. You cannot get into legal trouble taking a legal truck & driver into a weigh station if it is not necessary. So if in doubt, enter the weigh station. If you are running illegal, stop doing that.

 

Run the scales.
If they chase you, and come up to talk, do the ‘No speaka de english.’
That seems to work..