Scales IN the roads in now???

How in the he11 can those work?? Just hitting the plates would cause a huge spike, basically an unusable reading...

 

Well, hold on a sec, Pm, you say you haul RR cans out of the Windy, I did that for 4 1/2 years, and you talk about the "box of chocolates" thing, you never know what you are going to get, weight wise. Unless things have changed, there was never a scale around the yards to weigh yourself, and saw portables many times on the city streets.

 

I seen plates before the scale usually right under the prepass and I thought that's how they determine if you get the green light or red. Never seen them on I355 since that's no scale on that stretch..... Also semi retired there's a scale in the citgo warehouse off of cicero.

 

While driving itself is most definitely a privilege and not a right, due process is most assuredly a right and one that is currently being used here in Ohio to refute red light camera tickets with some success. Of course the state (any governmental body) will only continue to do what we allow it to, which means we're going to get the short end of the stick generally as usual.

 

Thanks w.h.o., I had an air pressure gauge for my air ride, and anything over 62 psi, I knew I was over 34K on the drive, and if I was going to be over anywhere, it was usually on the drive axles. My last day hauling those things, I was to pick up a Z-Van at the Grand Trunk(we called it the Grand Funk), found the wagon, there were 4 dents in the bottom rails of the trailer(2 on each side from the lift thing), I backed under it, felt really heavy, the air gauge read almost 90 psi( remember 62 was 34K), must have been 45K on the drive, pulled the pin, bobtailed home,and my plate was in the mail that next day.BTW, thanks for the scale location, but if I ever go back to the Windy for ANY reason, it will be too soon.

 

'Weigh-in-Motion' has been around for at least more years than I have been driving.
So why is such a concept such a shock?

You really don't think that it is possible to get a relatively accurate weight while you are going 60-65 over those plates?

We have been in the computer age for 30 years now.
Younger people might not get the gist.

There have been at least 6 quantum leaps in computing power and speed in that time.
Quantum = BIG!
What once would have required a 100,000 square foot building to contain in computing power, now resides in your little hand held cell phone!
Get a clue.

And tracking trucks is as simple as pulling up a satellite image in real time. All it takes is a desire to do so.
Had it done to me, just last night.
The guy I was talking to said, just a sec. And he saw my truck exactly where I was at and was trying to tell me where I might be able to park in that very tight Target parking lot.
We agreed, by the way, after I had previously bobtailed through.
He did in a few seconds, what I did in many more minutes.

That is where I'm sitting now - the one place in this entire 'truck-unfriendly' parking lot with an easy way out.

 

Hey Moosetek, you 're right, it's probably totally possible. Look at the toll roads in ILL., how they can read every car and truck that goes through, is just amazing. I'm sure DOT with a push of a button, can tell what you have on, your weight, when and where you loaded thus how long you've been driving. Makes a regular scale obsolete. Granted, I don't drive like I used to, but Wis. put up a new state of the art scale on I-90 just north of the state line, and I never see it open( although I'm sure there are times when it is), cost millions to build, I'm sure, was it worth it?

 

I20 east bound just outside of Atlanta has weigh in motion/in road scales just before the coops and i am quite certain that they get very close to real time weight as trucks roll over them at 55 mph or more.they have been there for a very long time.

 

That's I43 not wi43 and you are correct, it is a working scale imbedded in the pavement. It's placed to catch over weight trucks using I43 to dodge the badger scale at Janesville, wi. it has a camera and will trip an alarm to the state police and they then chase down said truck. Once you get past Janesville you can run I90 a long way before you see another scale, all the way across MN. and SD. but not sure.
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Hi kidsdad, there was a scale on WB I-90 just south of Madison,(EB still open) but I believe that one is closed, can't find any info on it. Otherwise, you're clean and green to the big river on I-90.