Odd things at weigh stations

The state has to buy insurance for their property, even the scales. I asked at a private property that had the same speed limit of 12 mph. The answer I got was insurance costs. It was thousands cheaper to have the speed limit at 12 than it was 15.

 

Don't hold your breath waiting for us stubborn Americans to change to the metric system. The world tried to get us to switch...we ignored them and they went away.

 

Well, the thing that caught me off guard was during that June DOT Blitz.. that scale on I55 Boilingbrook, IL.. they had 53' foot trailers with big decals called "DOT". I asked on the CB, what the hell is in that thing? One of the guys who just got done with an inspection that scale said ... 53 foot trailer full of tools for DOT officers.That's about the weirdest thing I've encountered to be quite honest.

 

Never happen, most of us can count past 10 without taking off our shoes....

 

What you probably saw was a DOT Transportation truck. It is a real carrier.

 

We did go metric , once before, back in the 70s for about a week and a half.

Then we quit because it was just too hard. Counting by 10s is exponentially more difficult than the standard system that has little rhyme nor reason.

 

I hope we never change to it In my lifetime it's not that I don't understand it I just don't like it. #Merica!

 

I have one more.....
One day I passed back into Az comin from a meet in Blythe (pm linehaul)..I saw one of our trucks w/ trailer there at the weigh station with no one around..Found out later a new guy hit the scale with 96k on board, most on rears, trailer rubbing tires when he pulled in, no log book, no dvir, no bol.....truck registered at 60k...
He got a 10k ticket by the time they hashed out all the violations....
Yup, my 2 years at Central Trans was always an adventure..Actually surprised someone this dumb could make it into a truck and be rollin...

The next day, they dispatched a homie with a forklift in the trailer to go butt to butt with the trailers and unload the guy some...heard it was a huge clusterfk as homies trailer was way higher up than the overloaded trailer making the transfer take 2 hours...lol

 

I was at an ethanol plant awhile back that had a 6 mph sign.