Didn't need to. They have it on their website. Read it & weep. There are a few exception states, so look at the footnotes. Sorry California operators. You lose. Again. Yet another reason to tear that page out of my atlas. Yes, the states can and do override the Prepass percentages, especially Georgia. GA is red light happy until someone gets killed in a scale ramp traffic jam. Then they wash their guilt (and pump their statistics for liability purposes, my guess) by being more generous with green for a few weeks. Some states, like Virginia and Louisiana, couple Prepass with weigh-in-motion. If you're looking heavy on the road scales, you get to pull across the official scale in the coop. I'm sure it's a safety thing and has nothing to do with violation revenue.
Pre-pass is time saving also if you have a green light. Expect usually if it is a first time going through a state area, you might get a redlight till they check you out a few times. This esp true if you have a new truck. Mega carriers like CRE got to pull in all the time because of their score and I imagine they are still doing so today.
As luck would have it.... ....I'm going to Georgia. I don't go there often but when I do, muhahaha. I like the way they close up most of the coops around dark thirty and don't open up again until morning cause when they're locked up is when I'm usually doing all of my trucking anyways.
Don't bet your life on it. I've been beeped into the Forsyth scale in the wee hours enough to know not to try it without a scale ticket if I'm close coming out of Perry in the dark before rush hour. That one's probably not a coincidence, since the state patrol HQ is also in Forsyth. Although they did stick the CMV unit in an old building in downtown Atlanta in a neighborhood where only armed police officers would feel comfortable visiting. Like they really needed to cut back on walk in visits.
I have been going to Atlanta once or twice a week for the last 6 weeks,I usually go throught ringglod around midnight local time & they have been open every time. I heard they had hired 15 or 20 new dot officers & were training them there. I have to go down again tonight & will be taking the scenic route. If they won't give you a chance with the prepass then they can come get me on 41.
One truck operator here. I run Prepass. It costs me $14.90/month with the OOIDA discount. Lots of urban legends floating around with regards to Prepass. Put all those legends to rest with a phone call to Prepass. 1) They DON'T provide any means of tracking for the scales to access. 2) Prepass has a rating system. The better your carrier score, the higher bypass percentage you obtain, up to a 95% pass ratio. 3) Scales CAN override the system. One common override is your gross weight. Cross the I-76 WB scale in Ft. Morgan, CO close to gross = red light. "If you run 100% legal logs, always time matching exactly, use prepass". Not sure what this is supposed to mean? Perhaps this guy runs on the fringe (if so thank you for helping make the the E-Log/EOBR rule more enticing for the FMCSA). Bottom line: Prepass can be looked at like a benefit for the rule following, carrier of today.
