Scale crossing photo tagging technology...

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  1. Chinatown

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    Manufacturing companies and chain stores set up cameras to track where expensive & inexpensive cars go so to better utilize their advertising money. They can track you all the way across a city and it gives them a better idea as to where to place billboards or mailouts, etc.
     
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    All of this high tech gadgetry isn't going to ever go away. Regulations are really the problem regardless of how enforcement embraces "gotcha contraptions".
     
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    Aurora (southbound) is the only scale in OR with a camera. I'm not sure if it takes your picture if you bypass, I suspect it does based on personal experience. All the other OR scales, they enter your license manually as you approach the scale. As soon as they hit enter they see all your prior scale crossings for a given period back. If you don't cross the scale you're not in the system.

    WA has license plate scanners at most scales. You're automatically entered in the system whether the scale is open or closed. OR and WA share data. I've had an OR trooper whine to me about a WA scale crossing time on my logbook.

    The only California scale with a camera or scanner is the new coop @ Cordelia eastbound. They have so much gadgetry up there I can't figure it all out. I haven't been through the new one at Primm yet, I suspect it's the same if not worse. Per my local former trucker turned CHP, CA is not routinely sharing or accessing any other states data yet. That's not to say that somebody at Dunsmuir couldn't call Medford and ask one of his buddies for the info.

    I avoid Aurora whenever possible via the Mollala scenic bypass.
     
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    CA has access to Oregon crossings.

    So, you're sure that Aurora south is the ONLY Oregon highway that uses photo tagging? ;-)
     
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    Cottonwood also shares with Oregon.
     
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    Not to be contrarian, but it was actually rather simple. He ran some heavy test fishing line thru his dash to his plate, which was mounted on hinges. As he would approach the toll, he simply pulled on the fishing line, causing the plate to flip up and not be visible.
    Who knows how much longer he might have gotten away with it if he had a little more thought put into it. They finally caught him because they noticed he was doing it generally the same time and/or days, so they just set up and waited and sure enough there he was! Lol
     
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    I know Klamath Falls has them, so I had to look:
    "Bypass detection systems are recording truck traffic at Ashland, Cascade Locks, Farewell Bend, Klamath Falls, La Grande, Umatilla, and Woodburn. The cameras are much more efficient than calling police for assistance or chasing a truck in order to identify it."
     
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    Cottonwood, CA has cameras. They're nice guys there, if it isn't busy ask for a tour...
     
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    I'm not talking about bypass detection systems for Pre-Pass. I'm talking about cameras or scanners that record you every time you go by or through.
     
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    Not to hijack. It's been a few years for me, but in Tx. at the "illegal alien enforcement check", they had a crazy array of electronic devices that apparently fed into a small trailer. What all were they looking at? In the name of National Security of course.